Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 75
After a while he awoke, and looking upon the Sea, loaded it with reproaches.
Who acts: man · What happens: awake, look, load · To what, where: Sea
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 (man), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 while | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 awoke | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 awoke | nsubj |
| 5 | awoke | awake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 loaded | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 loaded | cc |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 loaded | advcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 Sea | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Sea | det |
| 11 | Sea | Sea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 looking | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 13 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 awoke | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 loaded | obj |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 reproaches | case |
| 16 | reproaches | reproach | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 loaded | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 awoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | awake | past | man | while | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | look | gerund | upon the Sea | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon sea=Theme | |||||
| 3 | load | past | man not said here | Sea | with reproaches | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with reproach=Theme |
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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