Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 113
A KID standing on the roof of a house, out of harm’s way, saw a Wolf passing by and immediately began to taunt and revile him.
Who acts: KID, Wolf · What happens: stand, see, pass by, begin, taunt, revile · To what, where: roof, Wolf
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (KID, Wolf), 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 KID | det |
| 2 | KID | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 KID | acl |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 roof | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roof | det |
| 6 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 standing | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 roof | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 way | punct |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 way | case |
| 13 | harm | harm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 way | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 13 harm | case |
| 15 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 standing | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 KID | punct |
| 17 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Wolf | det |
| 19 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 saw | obj |
| 20 | passing | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 Wolf | acl |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 20 passing | fixed |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 began | cc |
| 23 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 24 began | advmod |
| 24 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 saw | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 taunt | mark |
| 26 | taunt | taunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 began | xcomp |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 revile | cc |
| 28 | revile | revile | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 taunt | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 revile | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | gerund | a KID not said here | the roof of a house | out harm's way | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | a KID | a Wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wolf=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | pass by | gerund | a Wolf not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | begin | past | a KID not said here | immediately property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | taunt | to-infinitive | a KID not said here | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | revile | infinitive | a KID not said here | Wolf | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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