Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 112
Just at that moment a Gnat settled on the head of the Elephant, and he replied, “Do you see that little buzzing insect?
Who acts: moment Gnat, you, that · What happens: settle, reply, see, insect · To what, where: moment Gnat · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (moment Gnat, you, that), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 6 Gnat | advmod |
| 2 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 moment | case |
| 3 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 moment | det |
| 4 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 Gnat | compound |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Gnat | det |
| 6 | Gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 7 | settled | settle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Gnat | acl |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 head | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 head | det |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 settled | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Elephant | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Elephant | det |
| 13 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 head | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 replied | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 replied | nsubj |
| 17 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 19 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 20 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 replied | conj |
| 23 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 insect | nsubj |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 insect | amod |
| 25 | buzzing | buzzing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 insect | compound |
| 26 | insect | insect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | settle | participle | a moment Gnat not said here | on the head of the Elephant | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on head=Topic | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: ask | past | a moment Gnat | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | insect in a quote | that | 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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