Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 31
A Goat, overcome with thirst, came to the same well, and seeing the Fox, inquired if the water was good.
Who acts: Goat, water · What happens: overcome, come, see, inquire, be · To what, where: same, Fox
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 (Goat, water), 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 Goat | det |
| 2 | Goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 overcome | punct |
| 4 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 2 Goat | parataxis |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 thirst | case |
| 6 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overcome | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goat | punct |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 same | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 same | det |
| 11 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 came | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 inquired | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inquired | cc |
| 15 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 inquired | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fox | det |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 seeing | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 seeing | punct |
| 19 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | parataxis |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 24 good | mark |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 water | det |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 good | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 good | cop |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 inquired | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overcome | infinitive | with thirst | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | come | past | a Goat | the same | well property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to same=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | see | gerund | the Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | inquire speech: other | participle | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | is a condition, not said to happen | past | the water | good property | tree rules |
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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