Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 87
A FISHERMAN skilled in music took his flute and his nets to the seashore.
Who acts: FISHERMAN · What happens: skill, take · To what, where: FISHERMAN, music, flute, seashore
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 (FISHERMAN), 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 FISHERMAN | det |
| 2 | FISHERMAN | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | nsubj |
| 3 | skilled | skill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 FISHERMAN | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 music | case |
| 5 | music | music | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 skilled | obl |
| 6 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 flute | nmod:poss |
| 8 | flute | flute | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 nets | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 nets | nmod:poss |
| 11 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flute | conj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 seashore | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 seashore | det |
| 14 | seashore | seashore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 took | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | skill | participle | a FISHERMAN not said here | music | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take | past | a FISHERMAN | FISHERMAN's flute and FISHERMAN's nets | the seashore | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flute=Theme to seashore=Destination |
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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