Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 75
TWO MEN were traveling together, when a Bear suddenly met them on their path.
Who acts: TWO MEN, Bear · What happens: travel, meet · To what, where: Travelers, path
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 (TWO MEN, Bear), 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 | TWO | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 MEN | nummod |
| 2 | MEN | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 traveling | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 traveling | aux |
| 4 | traveling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 traveling | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 met | punct |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 met | advmod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Bear | det |
| 9 | Bear | bear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | nsubj |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 met | advmod |
| 11 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 traveling | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 met | obj |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 path | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 path | nmod:poss |
| 15 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 met | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 traveling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | travel | past · progressive | TWO MEN | together property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | a Bear | Travelers = traveler | Bear's path | suddenly property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-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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