Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 118
One of his workmen observed his frequent visits to the spot and decided to watch his movements.
Who acts: One, Lion · What happens: observe, decide, watch, visit, move · To what, where: frequent visits, spot, movements
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One, Lion), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 observed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 workmen | case |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 workmen | nmod:poss |
| 4 | workmen | workman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 observed | nsubj |
| 5 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 visits | nmod:poss |
| 7 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 visits | amod |
| 8 | visits | visit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 observed | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 spot | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 spot | det |
| 11 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 observed | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 decided | cc |
| 13 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 observed | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 watch | mark |
| 15 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 decided | xcomp |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 movements | nmod:poss |
| 17 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 watch | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | One | Lion's frequent visits | the spot | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent visit=Topic to spot=Recipient | |||
| 2 | decide | past | One not said here | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | watch not said to happen | to-infinitive | One not said here | Lion's movements | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | ||||
| 4 | visit | Lion | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | move | Lion | nom movement «act 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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