Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 51
SOME BOYS, playing near a pond, saw a number of Frogs in the water and began to pelt them with stones.
Who acts: SOME BOYS · What happens: play, see, begin, pelt · To what, where: pond, number, water, Boy
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 (SOME BOYS), 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 | SOME | some | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 BOYS | amod |
| 2 | BOYS | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 playing | punct |
| 4 | playing | play | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 BOYS | acl |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 pond | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 playing | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 BOYS | punct |
| 9 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 number | det |
| 11 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Frogs | case |
| 13 | Frogs | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 number | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 water | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 water | det |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 saw | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 began | cc |
| 18 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 saw | conj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pelt | mark |
| 20 | pelt | pelt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 began | xcomp |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 pelt | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 stones | case |
| 23 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 pelt | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | play | gerund | SOME BOYS not said here | a pond | vn performance-26.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | see | past | SOME BOYS | a number of Frogs | the water | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer number=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | begin | past | SOME BOYS not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pelt | to-infinitive | SOME BOYS not said here | Boy | with stones | vn pelt-17.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Destination with stone=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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