The Aesop for Children, The Old Lion and the Fox, sentence 3

And when they came to offer him their sympathy, he ate them up one by one.

Who acts: neighbors, he · What happens: come, offer, eat up · To what, where: sympathy, him, neighbors

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Old Lion and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (neighbors, he), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	12 ate	cc
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 came	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 ate	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 offer	mark
6	offer	offer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	xcomp
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 offer	obj
8	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 sympathy	nmod:poss
9	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offer	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	nsubj
12	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 ate	obj
14	up	up	ADP	_	12 ate	compound:prt
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 ate	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	come	past	neighbors = neighbor			tree rules
2	offer	to-infinitive	neighbors = neighbor not said here	neighbors's sympathy	him = he	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.goal NP»: agent=Agent he=Goal sympathy=Theme
3	eat up	past	he	neighbors = neighbor		tree rules

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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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