Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 118
The Frog enjoyed the water amazingly, and swam croaking about, as if he had done a good deed.
Who acts: Frog, acquaintance · What happens: enjoy, swim, croak, do · To what, where: water, good deed
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frog, acquaintance), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Frog | det |
| 2 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 enjoyed | nsubj |
| 3 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 water | det |
| 5 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 enjoyed | obj |
| 6 | amazingly | amazingly | ADV | _ | 3 enjoyed | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 swam | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 swam | cc |
| 9 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 enjoyed | parataxis |
| 10 | croaking | croak | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 swam | xcomp |
| 11 | about | about | ADV | _ | 10 croaking | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 done | punct |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 done | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 done | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 done | aux |
| 17 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 swam | conj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 deed | det |
| 19 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 deed | amod |
| 20 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 done | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 enjoyed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enjoy | past | the Frog | the water | amazingly property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer water=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | swim | past | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | croak | gerund | about property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | acquaintance | a good deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |
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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