Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 72

A RIVER carried down in its stream two Pots, one made of earthenware and the other of brass.

Who acts: RIVER · What happens: carry down, make · To what, where: two Pots, stream

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 (RIVER), 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 RIVER	det
2	RIVER	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 RIVER	acl
4	down	down	ADP	_	3 carried	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 stream	case
6	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 stream	nmod:poss
7	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 carried	obl
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 Pots	nummod
9	Pots	pot	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 carried	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 one	punct
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 Pots	appos
12	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 one	acl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 earthenware	case
14	earthenware	earthenware	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 made	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 other	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 other	det
17	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 earthenware	conj
18	of	of	ADP	_	19 brass	case
19	brass	brass	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 other	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 RIVER	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	carry down	participle	a RIVER not said here	two Pots		RIVER's stream			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent pot=Value in stream=Location
2	make	participle						of earthenware	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset

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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