Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 93
A STAG overpowered by heat came to a spring to drink.
Who acts: STAG · What happens: overpower, come, drink · To what, where: STAG
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (STAG), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 STAG | det |
| 2 | STAG | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | nsubj |
| 3 | overpowered | overpower | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 STAG | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 heat | case |
| 5 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overpowered | obl |
| 6 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 spring | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 spring | det |
| 9 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 came | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 drink | mark |
| 11 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 came | advcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overpower | participle | a STAG not said here | by heat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | a STAG | spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | a STAG not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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