Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 95
One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well.
Who acts: least · What happens: wander, fix, fall, attend · To what, where: suburbs, whole attention, sky, deep well
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 (least), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 evening | nummod |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandered | punct |
| 4 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 wandered | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 wandered | nsubj |
| 6 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | through | through | ADP | _ | 9 suburbs | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 suburbs | det |
| 9 | suburbs | suburb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 wandered | obl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 attention | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 attention | nmod:poss |
| 12 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 attention | amod |
| 13 | attention | attention | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wandered | obl |
| 14 | fixed | fix | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 attention | acl |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 sky | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sky | det |
| 17 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fixed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 wandered | conj |
| 21 | accidentally | accidentally | ADV | _ | 20 fell | advmod |
| 22 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 well | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 well | det |
| 24 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 well | amod |
| 25 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | least | the suburbs | evening | with least's whole attention | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through suburb=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | fix | participle | least's whole attention not said here | the sky | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | least | into a deep well result; accidentally property | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into well=Result | ||||
| 4 | attend | least | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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