Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 86
A VERY LARGE OAK was uprooted by the wind and thrown across a stream.
Who acts: wind · What happens: uproot, throw · To what, where: LARGE OAK, stream
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 OAK | det |
| 2 | VERY | very | ADV | _ | 3 LARGE | advmod |
| 3 | LARGE | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 OAK | amod |
| 4 | OAK | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uprooted | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 uprooted | aux:pass |
| 6 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 wind | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 wind | det |
| 9 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 uprooted | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 thrown | cc |
| 11 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 uprooted | conj |
| 12 | across | across | ADP | _ | 14 stream | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stream | det |
| 14 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 thrown | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 uprooted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | uproot | past · passive | the wind | a LARGE OAK | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | participle | the wind not said here | a stream | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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