Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 42

They had not gone far when they met with a troop of women collected round a well, talking and laughing.

Who acts: Miller · What happens: not go, meet, collect, talk, laugh · To what, where: women

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 (Miller), 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	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 gone	advmod
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 met	advmod
7	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 met	nsubj
8	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 troop	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 troop	det
11	troop	troop	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 met	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 women	case
13	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 troop	nmod
14	collected	collect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 women	acl
15	round	round	ADP	_	17 well	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 well	det
17	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 collected	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 talking	punct
19	talking	talk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 met	advcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 laughing	cc
21	laughing	laugh	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 talking	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Miller		far property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	meet	past	Miller		with a troop of women	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with troop=Co-Agent
3	collect	participle		women not said here	round a well	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	talk	gerund	Miller not said here			vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	laugh	gerund	Miller not said here			vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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