Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 45
Presently they came up to a group of old men in earnest debate.
Who acts: Miller · What happens: come up · To what, where: group
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 | Presently | presently | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 came | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 group | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 group | det |
| 7 | group | group | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 men | case |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 men | amod |
| 10 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 group | nmod |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 debate | case |
| 12 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 debate | amod |
| 13 | debate | debate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 men | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come up | past | Miller | a group of old men in earnest debate | presently property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to group=Initial_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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