Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 116
A Fox, who had gone round them at a distance several times, saw them both stretched on the ground with the Kid lying untouched in the middle.
Who acts: Fox, Seagull, Kid · What happens: go, see, stretch, lie · To what, where: ground, middle · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox, Seagull, Kid), 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 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 gone | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 gone | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 gone | aux |
| 6 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 Fox | acl:relcl |
| 7 | round | round | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 gone | obl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 distance | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 distance | det |
| 11 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 gone | obl |
| 12 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 times | amod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 gone | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 stretched | nsubj |
| 17 | both | both | ADV | _ | 18 stretched | advmod |
| 18 | stretched | stretch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 ground | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 ground | det |
| 21 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stretched | obl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 Kid | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Kid | det |
| 24 | Kid | kid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 stretched | obl |
| 25 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 24 Kid | acl |
| 26 | untouched | untouched | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 lying | xcomp |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 29 middle | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 middle | det |
| 29 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 lying | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · perfect | a Fox | time | round Seagull; at a distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme round they=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | see | past | a Fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | stretch | past | Seagull | the ground | with the Kid; both property | vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with kid=Instrument | |||
| 4 | lie | gerund | the Kid not said here | the middle | untouched property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location |
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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