Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 123
As he was indulging in these reflections, he found himself surrounded by a whole army of Ants, near whose nest he was standing.
Who acts: Philosopher · What happens: indulge, find, surround, stand · To what, where: reflections, Philosopher, nest · 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 (Philosopher), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 indulging | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 indulging | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 indulging | aux |
| 4 | indulging | indulge | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 found | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 reflections | case |
| 6 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 7 reflections | det |
| 7 | reflections | reflection | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 indulging | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 indulging | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 found | nsubj |
| 10 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 found | obj |
| 12 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 found | ccomp |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 army | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 army | det |
| 15 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 army | amod |
| 16 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Ants | case |
| 18 | Ants | ant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 army | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 nest | punct |
| 20 | near | near | ADP | _ | 22 nest | case |
| 21 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 nest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Ants | conj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 standing | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 standing | aux |
| 25 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 nest | acl:relcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | indulge | past · progressive | Philosopher | this reflections | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | past | Philosopher | Philosopher | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | stand | past · progressive | Philosopher | Ants and Ants and nest's nest's nest not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus |
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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