The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 11

He gobbled up the poor Frogs right and left and they soon saw what fools they had been.

Who acts: king, Frogs · What happens: gobble up, leave, see · To what, where: poor Frogs

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king, Frogs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 gobbled	nsubj
2	gobbled	gobble	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 gobbled	compound:prt
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Frogs	det
5	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Frogs	amod
6	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 gobbled	obj
7	right	right	ADV	_	2 gobbled	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 left	cc
9	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 gobbled	conj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 saw	nsubj
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 saw	advmod
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 left	conj
14	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	13 saw	obj
15	fools	fool	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 what	nsubj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 been	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 been	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 fools	acl:relcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 gobbled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	gobble up	past	king	the poor Frogs	right property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent frog=Theme
2	leave	past	king not said here			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	see	past	Frogs = frog		soon property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus

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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