The Aesop for Children, The Ant and the Dove, sentence 5

But just as he cast the stone, the Ant stung him in the heel, so that the pain made him miss his aim, and the startled Dove flew to safety in a distant wood.

Who acts: Dove, Ant, pain, startled Dove · What happens: cast, sting, make, miss, startle, fly · To what, where: stone, Dove, heel, aim, distant wood

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ant and the Dove. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dove, Ant, pain, startled Dove), 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	_	5 cast	cc
2	just	just	ADV	_	5 cast	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 cast	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 cast	nsubj
5	cast	cast	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 cast	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 stung	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Ant	det
10	Ant	Ant	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 stung	nsubj
11	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 cast	parataxis
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 stung	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 heel	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heel	det
15	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stung	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	21 made	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pain	det
20	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	nsubj
21	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stung	conj
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 made	obj
23	miss	miss	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 made	xcomp
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 aim	nmod:poss
25	aim	aim	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 miss	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 flew	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 flew	cc
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 Dove	det
29	startled	startle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 Dove	amod
30	Dove	Dove	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 flew	nsubj
31	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 made	conj
32	to	to	ADP	_	33 safety	case
33	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flew	obl
34	in	in	ADP	_	37 wood	case
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 wood	det
36	distant	distant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 wood	amod
37	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 flew	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 cast	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cast	past	Dove	the stone			vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Product
2	sting	past	the Ant	Dove	the heel		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	make	past	the pain	Dove			tree rules
4	miss	infinitive	Dove not said here	Dove's aim			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer aim=Stimulus
5	startle	participle					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	fly	past	the startled Dove		a distant wood	to safety	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent in wood=Location
7	aim		Dove				nom aim «cognition intransitive»: poss=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: «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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