Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 126
A MONKEY perched upon a lofty tree saw some Fishermen casting their nets into a river, and narrowly watched their proceedings.
Who acts: MONKEY, Fishermen · What happens: perch, see, cast, watch, proceed · To what, where: MONKEY, lofty tree, Fishermen, nets, river, proceedings
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 (MONKEY, Fishermen), 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 MONKEY | det |
| 2 | MONKEY | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 MONKEY | acl |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 6 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 tree | amod |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perched | obl |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 Fishermen | det |
| 10 | Fishermen | fisherman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 saw | obj |
| 11 | casting | cast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Fishermen | acl |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 nets | nmod:poss |
| 13 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 casting | obj |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 river | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 river | det |
| 16 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 casting | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 watched | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 watched | cc |
| 19 | narrowly | narrowly | ADV | _ | 20 watched | advmod |
| 20 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 proceedings | nmod:poss |
| 22 | proceedings | proceedings | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 watched | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perch | participle | a MONKEY not said here | a lofty tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a MONKEY | some Fishermen | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fisherman=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | cast | gerund | some Fishermen not said here | Monkey's nets | a river | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent net=Material into river=Product | |||
| 4 | watch | past | a MONKEY not said here | Monkey's proceedings | narrowly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent proceedings=Theme | |||
| 5 | proceed | Monkey | nom proceedings «act intransitive»: poss=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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