The Aesop for Children, The Dog and His Reflection, sentence 5

But instead of thinking, he dropped his bone and sprang at the Dog in the river, only to find himself swimming for dear life to reach the shore.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: think, drop, find, swim, reach · To what, where: bone, river, Dog, shore

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and His Reflection. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 dropped	cc
2	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	4 thinking	mark
3	of	of	ADP	_	2 instead	fixed
4	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 dropped	advcl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 thinking	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 dropped	nsubj
7	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 bone	nmod:poss
9	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sprang	cc
11	sprang	sprang	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bone	conj
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 Dog	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Dog	det
14	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 dropped	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 find	punct
19	only	only	ADV	_	21 find	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 find	mark
21	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 dropped	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 find	obj
23	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	21 find	xcomp
24	for	for	ADP	_	26 life	case
25	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 life	amod
26	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 swimming	obl
27	to	to	PART	_	28 reach	mark
28	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 swimming	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 shore	det
30	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 reach	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 dropped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	gerund	Dog not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drop	past	Dog	Dog's bone and sprang	the river	at the Dog	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent bone=Theme at dog=Destination in river=Initial_Location
3	find	to-infinitive	Dog not said here	Dog			vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Attribute clause=Theme
4	swim	gerund	Dog not said here			for dear life	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	reach	to-infinitive	Dog not said here	the shore			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent shore=Theme

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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