Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 98
However when the summer returned again, he lay asleep stretched at his full length and appeared to himself to be of a great size.
Who acts: summer, space · What happens: return, lie, stretch, appear, be · To what, where: full length, space
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 (summer, space), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 returned | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 summer | det |
| 4 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 returned | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 lay | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lay | nsubj |
| 9 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 returned | advcl |
| 10 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 lay | xcomp |
| 11 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 asleep | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 length | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 length | nmod:poss |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 length | amod |
| 15 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 stretched | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 appeared | cc |
| 17 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lay | conj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 himself | case |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 appeared | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 size | mark |
| 21 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 size | cop |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 size | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 size | det |
| 24 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 size | amod |
| 25 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 appeared | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | the summer | again | however property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lie | past | space | asleep property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | stretch | participle | space not said here | space's full length | vn bend-45.2 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | appear | past | space not said here | space | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | to-infinitive | space not said here | of a great size | tree rules |
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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