Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 117
The Ant climbed onto it and floated in safety to the bank.
Who acts: Ant · What happens: climb, float · To what, where: stream, safety
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Ant | det |
| 2 | Ant | Ant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | onto | onto | ADP | _ | 5 it | case |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 climbed | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 floated | cc |
| 7 | floated | float | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 climbed | conj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 safety | case |
| 9 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floated | obl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 bank | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bank | det |
| 12 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 floated | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | past | the Ant | stream | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme onto it=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | float | participle | the Ant not said here | safety | to the bank | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V PP.source PP.trajectory PP.destination»: agent=Theme in safety=Source to bank=Trajectory |
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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