Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 37
A WAYFARING MAN, traveling in the desert, met a woman standing alone and terribly dejected.
Who acts: WAYFARING MAN, woman · What happens: travel, meet, stand, deject · To what, where: desert, woman
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 (WAYFARING MAN, woman), 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 | 3 MAN | det |
| 2 | WAYFARING | wayfaring | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 MAN | amod |
| 3 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 traveling | punct |
| 5 | traveling | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 MAN | acl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 desert | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 desert | det |
| 8 | desert | desert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 traveling | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 MAN | punct |
| 10 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 woman | det |
| 12 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 met | obj |
| 13 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 woman | acl |
| 14 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 13 standing | advmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dejected | cc |
| 16 | terribly | terribly | ADV | _ | 17 dejected | advmod |
| 17 | dejected | deject | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 standing | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 met | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | gerund | a WAYFARING MAN not said here | the desert | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in desert=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a WAYFARING MAN | a woman | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a woman not said here | alone property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | deject | participle | a woman not said here | terribly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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