Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 111
As they journeyed, they passed through a cemetery full of monuments.
Who acts: Monkey · What happens: journey, pass · To what, where: cemetery
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 journeyed | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 journeyed | nsubj |
| 3 | journeyed | journey | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 journeyed | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 cemetery | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 cemetery | det |
| 9 | cemetery | cemetery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obl |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 cemetery | amod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 monuments | case |
| 12 | monuments | monument | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | journey | past | Monkey | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | past | Monkey | a cemetery | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through cemetery=Location |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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