Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 14
A HUNTSMAN, returning with his dogs from the field, fell in by chance with a Fisherman who was bringing home a basket well laden with fish.
Who acts: HUNTSMAN, Fisherman · What happens: return, fall in, bring, lade · To what, where: field, basket
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (HUNTSMAN, Fisherman), 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 HUNTSMAN | det |
| 2 | HUNTSMAN | HUNTSMAN | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 returning | punct |
| 4 | returning | return | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 HUNTSMAN | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 dogs | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 dogs | nmod:poss |
| 7 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 returning | obl |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 field | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returning | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 HUNTSMAN | punct |
| 12 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | in | in | ADV | _ | 12 fell | advmod |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 chance | case |
| 15 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 fell | obl |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 Fisherman | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Fisherman | det |
| 18 | Fisherman | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 chance | nmod |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 bringing | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 bringing | aux |
| 21 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 Fisherman | acl:relcl |
| 22 | home | home | ADV | _ | 21 bringing | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 basket | det |
| 24 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 bringing | obj |
| 25 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 laden | advmod |
| 26 | laden | lade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 basket | acl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 fish | case |
| 28 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 laden | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | a HUNTSMAN not said here | the field | with vessel's dogs | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from field=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fall in | past | a HUNTSMAN | by chance with a Fisherman | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by chance=Location | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · progressive | a Fisherman | a basket | home property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent basket=Theme | |||
| 4 | lade | participle | a basket not said here | with fish; well property | tree rules |
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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