The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Crab, sentence 2
He decided to take a stroll to the meadow not far inland.
Who acts: He · What happens: decide, take · To what, where: stroll, meadow
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Crab. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 decided | nsubj |
| 2 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 take | mark |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 decided | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stroll | det |
| 6 | stroll | stroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 meadow | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meadow | det |
| 9 | meadow | meadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obl |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 11 far | advmod |
| 11 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 inland | advmod |
| 12 | inland | inland | ADV | _ | 4 take | advmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 decided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide | past | He | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | He not said here | a stroll | the meadow | inland property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stroll=Theme to meadow=Destination |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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