Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 32
A BOY bathing in a river was in danger of being drowned.
Who acts: BOY bathing · What happens: be, drown · To what, where: danger
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BOY bathing), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 bathing | det |
| 2 | BOY | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bathing | compound |
| 3 | bathing | bathing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 danger | nsubj |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 bathing | nmod |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 danger | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 danger | case |
| 9 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 10 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 drowned | mark |
| 11 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 drowned | aux:pass |
| 12 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 danger | acl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 danger | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a BOY bathing in a river | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | drown | gerund · passive | danger not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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