Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 6
When he reached the hollow of the tree, he found a hive full of honey.
Who acts: Tree · What happens: reach, find · To what, where: hollow, hive
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 (Tree), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 found | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hollow | det |
| 5 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hollow | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 found | nsubj |
| 11 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 hive | det |
| 13 | hive | hive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 found | obj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hive | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 honey | case |
| 16 | honey | honey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Tree | the hollow of the tree | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hollow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Tree | a hive | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hive=Topic |
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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