Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 96
A CARTER was driving a wagon along a country lane, when the wheels sank down deep into a rut.
Who acts: CARTER, wheels · What happens: drive, sink down · To what, where: wagon, country lane, rut
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 (CARTER, wheels), 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 CARTER | det |
| 2 | CARTER | CARTER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driving | aux |
| 4 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 wagon | det |
| 6 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obj |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 lane | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lane | det |
| 9 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lane | compound |
| 10 | lane | lane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 sank | punct |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 sank | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wheels | det |
| 14 | wheels | wheel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 sank | nsubj |
| 15 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driving | parataxis |
| 16 | down | down | ADV | _ | 15 sank | advmod |
| 17 | deep | deep | ADV | _ | 20 rut | advmod |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 rut | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 rut | det |
| 20 | rut | rut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 sank | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 driving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | a CARTER | a wagon | a country lane | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme along lane=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | sink down | past | the wheels | a rut | down property | 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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