Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 55
They waited in the hope of seeing it enter the harbor, but as the object on which they looked was driven nearer to shore by the wind, they found that it could at the most be a small boat, and not a ship.
Who acts: Travelers, hope, wind · What happens: wait, see, enter, look, drive, find · To what, where: hope, harbor, object, small boat
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 (Travelers, hope, wind), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 waited | nsubj |
| 2 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 hope | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hope | det |
| 5 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | obl |
| 6 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 7 seeing | mark |
| 7 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 hope | acl |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 seeing | obj |
| 9 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 seeing | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 harbor | det |
| 11 | harbor | harbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enter | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 driven | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 driven | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 object | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 object | det |
| 16 | object | object | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 looked | obl |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 looked | nsubj |
| 20 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 object | acl:relcl |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 driven | aux:pass |
| 22 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 waited | conj |
| 23 | nearer | near | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 driven | xcomp |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 shore | mark |
| 25 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 nearer | advcl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 wind | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 wind | det |
| 28 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 driven | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 found | punct |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 found | nsubj |
| 31 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 waited | conj |
| 32 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 could | mark |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 could | nsubj |
| 34 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 found | ccomp |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 41 boat | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 boat | det |
| 37 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 boat | advmod |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 boat | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 boat | det |
| 40 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 boat | amod |
| 41 | boat | boat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 could | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 ship | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 ship | cc |
| 44 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 46 ship | advmod |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 ship | det |
| 46 | ship | ship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 waited | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | past | Travelers = traveler | the hope | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location | ||||
| 2 | see | gerund | the hope not said here | hope | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enter | infinitive | hope not said here | the harbor | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harbor=Destination | ||||
| 4 | look | past | Travelers = traveler | on the object | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on which=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drive | past · passive | the wind | the object | near property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme subject=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | find | past | Travelers = traveler | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is | infinitive | the small boat | tree 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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