The Aesop for Children, The Ass and Its Shadow, sentence 7
The two soon came to blows, and while they were fighting, the Ass took to its heels.
Who acts: two, blows, Ass · What happens: come, fight, take · To what, where: blows
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and Its Shadow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, blows, Ass), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 two | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 came | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 came | advmod |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 blows | case |
| 6 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 came | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 took | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 took | cc |
| 9 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 12 fighting | mark |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 fighting | nsubj |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 fighting | aux |
| 12 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 took | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 fighting | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Ass | det |
| 15 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 took | nsubj |
| 16 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 heels | case |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 heels | nmod:poss |
| 19 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 took | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the two | blows | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to blow=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | fight | past · progressive | blows = blow | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | take | past | the Ass | to Ass's heels result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result |
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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