Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 78
TWO TRAVELERS, worn out by the heat of the summer’s sun, laid themselves down at noon under the widespreading branches of a Plane-Tree.
Who acts: TWO TRAVELERS, sun · What happens: wear out, lay down, heat · To what, where: TWO TRAVELERS, beauty, widespreading branches
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 (TWO TRAVELERS, sun), 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 | TWO | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 TRAVELERS | nummod |
| 2 | TRAVELERS | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laid | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 worn | punct |
| 4 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 TRAVELERS | acl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 worn | compound:prt |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 heat | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 heat | det |
| 8 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 worn | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 sun | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 summer | det |
| 11 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sun | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 summer | case |
| 13 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heat | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 TRAVELERS | punct |
| 15 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 laid | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 laid | compound:prt |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 19 noon | case |
| 19 | noon | noon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 laid | obl |
| 20 | under | under | ADP | _ | 23 branches | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 branches | det |
| 22 | widespreading | widespreading | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 branches | compound |
| 23 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 laid | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Tree | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Tree | det |
| 26 | Plane | Plane | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tree | compound |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 Plane | punct |
| 28 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 branches | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 laid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wear out | participle | TWO TRAVELERS not said here | by the heat of the summer's sun | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | lay down | past | TWO TRAVELERS | beauty | the widespreading branches of a Plane Tree | noon | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent themselves=Theme under branch=Destination | ||
| 3 | heat | the summer's sun | nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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