Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 43

While they were playing one day as children, they happened by chance to look together into a mirror that was placed on their mother’s chair.

Who acts: son · What happens: play, happen, look, place · To what, where: mirror, chair

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 (son), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 playing	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 playing	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 playing	aux
4	playing	play	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 happened	advcl
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 day	nummod
6	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 playing	obl:unmarked
7	as	as	ADP	_	8 children	case
8	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 playing	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 playing	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 happened	nsubj
11	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	by	by	ADP	_	13 chance	case
13	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 happened	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 look	mark
15	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 chance	acl
16	together	together	ADV	_	15 look	advmod
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 mirror	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 mirror	det
19	mirror	mirror	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 look	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 placed	nsubj:pass
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 placed	aux:pass
22	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 mirror	acl:relcl
23	on	on	ADP	_	27 chair	case
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mother	nmod:poss
25	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 chair	nmod:poss
26	’s	's	PART	_	25 mother	case
27	chair	chair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 placed	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 happened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	play	past · progressive	son			day	as children	vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	happen	past	son				by chance	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chance=Location
3	look	to-infinitive	son not said here				into a mirror; together property	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into mirror=Theme
4	place	past · passive		a mirror	son's mother's chair			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme on chair=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: «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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