Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 110
As these thoughts passed through his mind, he met an Elephant and came close to hold a conversation with him.
Who acts: thoughts, courage · What happens: pass, meet, come, hold, mind · To what, where: mind, Elephant, conversation
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (thoughts, courage), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 passed | mark |
| 2 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 thoughts | det |
| 3 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 passed | nsubj |
| 4 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | advcl |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 mind | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 mind | nmod:poss |
| 7 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 passed | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 passed | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 met | nsubj |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Elephant | det |
| 12 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 came | cc |
| 14 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 met | conj |
| 15 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 came | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 hold | mark |
| 17 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 came | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 conversation | det |
| 19 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 hold | obj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 hold | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past | this thoughts | courage's mind | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through mind=Location | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | courage | a Elephant | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent elephant=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | courage not said here | close property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | hold | to-infinitive | courage not said here | a conversation | with courage | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conversation=Theme | |||
| 5 | mind | courage | nom mind «cognition 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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