Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 20
At night they returned home, not dreaming of any danger, but supposing that on the morrow they would find him dead.
Who acts: others · What happens: return, not dream, suppose, find · To what, where: that, morrow, Shepherd
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (others), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 night | case |
| 2 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 dreaming | punct |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 dreaming | advmod |
| 8 | dreaming | dream | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 returned | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 danger | case |
| 10 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 11 danger | det |
| 11 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dreaming | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 supposing | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 supposing | cc |
| 14 | supposing | suppose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 dreaming | conj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 supposing | obj |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 morrow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 morrow | det |
| 18 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 supposing | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | nsubj |
| 20 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 find | aux |
| 21 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 morrow | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 find | obj |
| 23 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 find | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | others = other | night | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | not dream | gerund | others = other not said here | of any danger | vn cognize-85 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | suppose | gerund | others = other not said here | that | the morrow | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent that=Attribute | |||
| 4 | find | would | others = other | Shepherd | dead property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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