Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 63
THE ANTS were spending a fine winter’s day drying grain collected in the summertime.
Who acts: ANTS · What happens: spend, dry, collect · To what, where: grain, summertime
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 (ANTS), 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 | THE | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 ANTS | det |
| 2 | ANTS | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 spending | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 spending | aux |
| 4 | spending | spend | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 winter | det |
| 6 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 winter | amod |
| 7 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 day | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 winter | case |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 spending | obj |
| 10 | drying | dry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 spending | advcl |
| 11 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 drying | obj |
| 12 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 grain | acl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 summertime | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 summertime | det |
| 15 | summertime | summertime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 collected | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 spending | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spend | past · progressive | the ANTS | day | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | dry | gerund | the ANTS not said here | grain | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient grain=Result | ||||
| 3 | collect | participle | grain not said here | the summertime | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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