Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 72
At nightfall they took shelter in a thick wood.
Who acts: friends · What happens: take · To what, where: shelter, nightfall
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 (friends), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 nightfall | case |
| 2 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 took | nsubj |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 wood | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 wood | det |
| 8 | thick | thick | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wood | amod |
| 9 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | friends = friend | shelter | nightfall | in a thick wood | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in wood=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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