Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 81
ON A SUMMER DAY, when the great heat induced a general thirst among the beasts, a Lion and a Boar came at the same moment to a small well to drink.
Who acts: great heat, Lion · What happens: induce, come, drink · To what, where: general thirst, small well
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 (great heat, Lion), 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 | ON | on | ADP | _ | 4 DAY | case |
| 2 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 DAY | det |
| 3 | SUMMER | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 DAY | compound |
| 4 | DAY | DAY | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 induced | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 DAY | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 induced | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 heat | det |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 heat | amod |
| 9 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 induced | nsubj |
| 10 | induced | induce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thirst | det |
| 12 | general | general | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 thirst | amod |
| 13 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 induced | obj |
| 14 | among | among | ADP | _ | 16 beasts | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 beasts | det |
| 16 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 induced | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 came | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Boar | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Boar | det |
| 22 | Boar | Boar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Lion | conj |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 induced | conj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 moment | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 moment | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 moment | amod |
| 27 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 well | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 well | det |
| 30 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 well | amod |
| 31 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 drink | mark |
| 33 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 well | acl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 induced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | induce | past | the great heat | a general thirst | on a SUMMER DAY | among the beasts | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thirst=Patient | ||
| 2 | come | past | Lion and a Boar | a small well | moment | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to well=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | drink | to-infinitive | Lion and a Boar not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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