Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 119
He soon discovered the secret of the hidden treasure, and digging down, came to the lump of gold, and stole it.
Who acts: One · What happens: discover, dig down, come, steal · To what, where: secret, lump
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 discovered | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 discovered | advmod |
| 3 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 secret | det |
| 5 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 discovered | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 treasure | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 treasure | det |
| 8 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 treasure | amod |
| 9 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secret | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 digging | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 digging | cc |
| 12 | digging | dig | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 discovered | advcl |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 digging | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 discovered | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 lump | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lump | det |
| 18 | lump | lump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gold | case |
| 20 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lump | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 stole | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 stole | cc |
| 23 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 came | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 stole | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | One | the secret of the hidden treasure | soon property | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Topic | |||
| 2 | dig down | gerund | One not said here | down property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come | past | the lump of gold | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to lump=Initial_Location | |||||
| 4 | steal | past | secret | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme |
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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