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Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 54

SOME TRAVELERS, journeying along the seashore, climbed to the summit of a tall cliff, and looking over the sea, saw in the distance what they thought was a large ship.

Who acts: SOME TRAVELERS, Travelers · What happens: journey, climb, look, see, think, be · To what, where: seashore, summit, large ship · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (SOME TRAVELERS, Travelers), 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

amodnsubjpunctaclcasedetoblpunctcasedetoblcasedetamodnmodpunctccadvclcasedetoblpunctconjcasedetoblnsubjnsubjacl:relclcopdetamodccomppunctrootSOMEADJTRAVELERSNOUN,PUNCTjourneyingVERBalongADPtheDETseashoreNOUN,PUNCTclimbedVERBtoADPtheDETsummitNOUNofADPaDETtallADJcliffNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJlookingVERBoverADPtheDETseaNOUN,PUNCTsawVERBinADPtheDETdistanceNOUNwhatPRONtheyPRONthoughtVERBwasAUXaDETlargeADJshipNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SOMEsomeADJDegree=Pos2 TRAVELERSamod
2TRAVELERStravelerNOUNNumber=Plur9 climbednsubj
3,,PUNCT_4 journeyingpunct
4journeyingjourneyVERBVerbForm=Ger2 TRAVELERSacl
5alongalongADP_7 seashorecase
6thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 seashoredet
7seashoreseashoreNOUNNumber=Sing4 journeyingobl
8,,PUNCT_9 climbedpunct
9climbedclimbVERBMood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10totoADP_12 summitcase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 summitdet
12summitsummitNOUNNumber=Sing9 climbedobl
13ofofADP_16 cliffcase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 cliffdet
15talltallADJDegree=Pos16 cliffamod
16cliffcliffNOUNNumber=Sing12 summitnmod
17,,PUNCT_24 sawpunct
18andandCCONJ_24 sawcc
19lookinglookVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part24 sawadvcl
20overoverADP_22 seacase
21thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 seadet
22seaseaNOUNNumber=Sing19 lookingobl
23,,PUNCT_19 lookingpunct
24sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 climbedconj
25ininADP_27 distancecase
26thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art27 distancedet
27distancedistanceNOUNNumber=Sing24 sawobl
28whatwhatPRONPronType=Int34 shipnsubj
29theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs30 thoughtnsubj
30thoughtthinkVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 whatacl:relcl
31wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 shipcop
32aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art34 shipdet
33largelargeADJDegree=Pos34 shipamod
34shipshipNOUNNumber=Sing24 sawccomp
35..PUNCT_9 climbedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1journeygerundSOME TRAVELERS not said herethe seashorevn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along seashore=Trajectory
2climbpastSOME TRAVELERSthe summit of a tall cliffvn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to summit=Destination
3lookgerundover the seavn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over sea=Theme
4seepastSOME TRAVELERS not said herein the distancevn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5think speech: otherpastTravelers = travelervn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6is apasta large shiptree rules

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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