Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 72
Determined to keep as far apart as possible, the one seated himself in the stem, and the other in the prow of the ship.
Who acts: one · What happens: keep, seat · To what, where: boy, stem
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 (one), 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 | Determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 keep | mark |
| 3 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Determined | xcomp |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 far | advmod |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 apart | advmod |
| 6 | apart | apart | ADV | _ | 3 keep | advmod |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 possible | mark |
| 8 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 apart | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 seated | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 one | det |
| 11 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seated | nsubj |
| 12 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 apart | parataxis |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 seated | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 stem | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 stem | det |
| 16 | stem | stem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 seated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 other | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 other | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 other | det |
| 20 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Determined | conj |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 prow | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 prow | det |
| 23 | prow | prow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 other | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 ship | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ship | det |
| 26 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prow | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Determined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | to-infinitive | apart property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | seat | past | the one | boy | the stem | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in stem=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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