Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 94
AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars.
What happens: use, go out, observe · To what, where: AN ASTRONOMER, stars
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: 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 ASTRONOMER | amod |
| 2 | ASTRONOMER | astronomer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | used | use | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ASTRONOMER | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 go | mark |
| 5 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 used | xcomp |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 5 go | compound:prt |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 night | case |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 go | obl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 observe | mark |
| 10 | observe | observe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 go | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stars | det |
| 12 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 observe | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ASTRONOMER | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | participle | AN ASTRONOMER not said here | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | go out | to-infinitive | night | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | observe | to-infinitive | the stars | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent star=Topic |
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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