Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 75
At last waking up, and moving as fast as he could, he saw the Tortoise had reached the goal, and was comfortably dozing after her fatigue.
Who acts: Hare, Tortoise · What happens: wake up, move, see, reach, doze, fatigue · To what, where: last, goal · 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 (Hare, Tortoise), 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 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 saw | obl |
| 3 | waking | wake | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 last | advcl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 waking | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 moving | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 moving | cc |
| 7 | moving | move | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 waking | conj |
| 8 | as | as | ADV | _ | 9 fast | advmod |
| 9 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 moving | advmod |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 could | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 could | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 fast | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Tortoise | det |
| 17 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 reached | aux |
| 19 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 goal | det |
| 21 | goal | goal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 reached | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dozing | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dozing | cc |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 dozing | aux |
| 25 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 26 dozing | advmod |
| 26 | dozing | doze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 saw | conj |
| 27 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 fatigue | case |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fatigue | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fatigue | fatigue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dozing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | gerund | Hare not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | move | gerund | Hare not said here | fast property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Hare | last | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | reach | past · perfect | the Tortoise | the goal | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent goal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | doze | past · progressive | Hare not said here | after Tortoise's fatigue | comfortably property | vn snooze-40.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 6 | fatigue | Tortoise | nom fatigue «state transitive»: poss=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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