Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 139
But as soon as they realized that the huge log was motionless, they swam again to the top of the water, dismissed their fears, climbed up, and began squatting on it in contempt.
Who acts: Frogs, huge log · What happens: realize, be, swim, dismiss, climb up, begin · To what, where: top, fears, log
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 (Frogs, huge log), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 realized | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 3 soon | advmod |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 realized | advmod |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 realized | mark |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 realized | nsubj |
| 6 | realized | realize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 motionless | mark |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 log | det |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 log | amod |
| 10 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 motionless | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 motionless | cop |
| 12 | motionless | motionless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 realized | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 swam | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 swam | nsubj |
| 15 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 realized | conj |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 15 swam | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 top | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 top | det |
| 19 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 swam | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 water | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 top | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 dismissed | punct |
| 24 | dismissed | dismiss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 swam | conj |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 fears | nmod:poss |
| 26 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 climbed | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 climbed | punct |
| 28 | climbed | climb | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 dismissed | ccomp |
| 29 | up | up | ADP | _ | 28 climbed | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 began | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 began | cc |
| 32 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 realized | conj |
| 33 | squatting | squat | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 began | xcomp |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 squatting | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 contempt | case |
| 37 | contempt | contempt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 squatting | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 realized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | realize | past | Frogs = frog | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the huge log | motionless property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swim | past | Frogs = frog | the top of the water | again | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to top=Destination | |||
| 4 | dismiss | past | Frogs = frog not said here | vn reject-77.2-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | climb up | participle · passive | Frogs's fears | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 6 | begin | past | Frogs = frog not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | squat | gerund | Frogs = frog not said here | log | in contempt | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on it=Location | |||
| 8 | fear | Frogs = frog | nom fear «feeling 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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