Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 92
Some boatmen sailing by saw her, and taking a successful aim, mortally wounded her.
Who acts: boatmen · What happens: sail, see, take, wound · To what, where: Doe, successful aim
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 (boatmen), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 boatmen | det |
| 2 | boatmen | boatman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 boatmen | acl |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 sailing | fixed |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 taking | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 taking | cc |
| 9 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 saw | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 aim | det |
| 11 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 aim | amod |
| 12 | aim | aim | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 taking | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 wounded | punct |
| 14 | mortally | mortally | ADV | _ | 15 wounded | advmod |
| 15 | wounded | wound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 wounded | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | gerund | some boatmen not said here | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | see | past | some boatmen | Doe | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | take | gerund | some boatmen not said here | a successful aim | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aim=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wound | past | some boatmen not said here | Doe | mortally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus she=Experiencer |
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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