Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 104
The Traveler no sooner felt his genial rays than he took off one garment after another, and at last, fairly overcome with heat, undressed and bathed in a stream that lay in his path.
Who acts: Traveler, stream · What happens: feel, take off, overcome, undress, bath, lie · To what, where: genial rays, one garment, last, stream, path
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Traveler, stream), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Traveler | det |
| 2 | Traveler | Traveler | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 felt | nsubj |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 sooner | det |
| 4 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 felt | advmod |
| 5 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 rays | nmod:poss |
| 7 | genial | genial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 rays | amod |
| 8 | rays | ray | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 felt | obj |
| 9 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 11 took | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 took | nsubj |
| 11 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | advcl |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 took | compound:prt |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 garment | nummod |
| 14 | garment | garment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 took | obj |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 16 another | case |
| 16 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 took | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 overcome | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 overcome | cc |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 last | case |
| 20 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 overcome | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 last | punct |
| 22 | fairly | fairly | ADV | _ | 23 overcome | advmod |
| 23 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 felt | parataxis |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 heat | case |
| 25 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 overcome | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 undressed | punct |
| 27 | undressed | undress | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 overcome | conj |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 bathed | cc |
| 29 | bathed | bath | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 undressed | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 stream | case |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 stream | det |
| 32 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bathed | obl |
| 33 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 lay | nsubj |
| 34 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 stream | acl:relcl |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 path | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 path | nmod:poss |
| 37 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lay | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 felt | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | the Traveler | Traveler's genial rays | soon property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ray=Theme | |||
| 2 | take off | past | Traveler | one garment | after another | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent garment=Theme | |||
| 3 | overcome | present | last | with heat; fairly property | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 4 | undress | participle | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | bath | participle | a stream | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | lie | past | a stream | Traveler's path | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in path=Location | ||||
| 7 | ray | Traveler | nom ray «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent |
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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