Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 56
A TRAVELER about to set out on a journey saw his Dog stand at the door stretching himself.
Who acts: TRAVELER, Dog · What happens: set out, see, stand, stretch · To what, where: journey, door, Dog · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TRAVELER, Dog), 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 | 2 TRAVELER | det |
| 2 | TRAVELER | traveler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | about | about | ADP | _ | 5 set | case |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 set | mark |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 TRAVELER | acl |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 journey | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 journey | det |
| 9 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | obl |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 Dog | nmod:poss |
| 12 | Dog | Dog | PROPN | _ | 13 stand | nsubj |
| 13 | stand | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 saw | ccomp |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 door | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 door | det |
| 16 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stand | obl |
| 17 | stretching | stretch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 stand | advcl |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 stretching | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set out | to-infinitive | a TRAVELER not said here | a journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a TRAVELER | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stand | infinitive | Hare's Dog | the door | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at door=Location | ||||
| 4 | stretch | gerund | Hare's Dog not said here | Dog | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent himself=Patient |
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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