Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 54
A HEAVY WAGON was being dragged along a country lane by a team of Oxen.
Who acts: team · What happens: drag · To what, where: HEAVY WAGON
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 (team), 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 | 3 WAGON | det |
| 2 | HEAVY | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 WAGON | amod |
| 3 | WAGON | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 dragged | aux:pass |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 dragged | aux:pass |
| 6 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 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 | 6 dragged | obl |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 team | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 team | det |
| 13 | team | team | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 dragged | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Oxen | case |
| 15 | Oxen | Oxen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 team | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 dragged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drag | past · passive | a team of Oxen | a HEAVY WAGON | along a country lane | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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