Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 49
While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw.
Who acts: straw, antlers · What happens: examine, spy, peep out · To what, where: everything, turn, tips, straw
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 (straw, antlers), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 4 examined | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 examined | nsubj |
| 3 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 4 examined | advmod |
| 4 | examined | examine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 spied | advcl |
| 5 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 examined | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 turn | case |
| 7 | turn | turn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 examined | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 examined | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 spied | nsubj |
| 10 | spied | spy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tips | det |
| 12 | tips | tip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 spied | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 antlers | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 antlers | det |
| 15 | antlers | antler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 tips | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Stag | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Stag | det |
| 18 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 antlers | nmod |
| 19 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 antlers | acl |
| 20 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 straw | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 straw | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 straw | det |
| 23 | straw | straw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 peeping | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 spied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | examine | past | straw | everything | turn | thus property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent everything=Theme | ||
| 2 | spy | past | straw | the tips of the antlers of the Stag | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tip=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | peep out | gerund | the antlers of the Stag not said here | the straw | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent straw=Theme |
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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