The Aesop for Children, The Oak and the Reeds, sentence 13

The wind redoubled in fury, and all at once the great tree fell, torn up by the roots, and lay among the pitying Reeds.

Who acts: great tree, roots, wind · What happens: redouble, fall, tear up, lay, pity · To what, where: wind, fury, all, pitying Reeds

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Oak and the Reeds. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great tree, roots, wind), 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 wind	det
2	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lay	nsubj
3	redoubled	redouble	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wind	acl
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 fury	case
5	fury	fury	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 redoubled	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 torn	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 torn	cc
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	16 torn	nsubj:pass
9	at	at	SCONJ	_	14 fell	mark
10	once	once	SCONJ	_	14 fell	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 tree	det
12	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 tree	amod
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 fell	nsubj
14	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 torn	advcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 fell	punct
16	torn	tear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 wind	acl
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 torn	compound:prt
18	by	by	ADP	_	20 roots	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 roots	det
20	roots	root	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 torn	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lay	cc
23	lay	lay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
24	among	among	ADP	_	27 Reeds	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Reeds	det
26	pitying	pity	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 Reeds	amod
27	Reeds	reed	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 lay	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	redouble	participle		the wind not said here	fury	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	fall	past	the great tree			vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	tear up	participle · passive	the roots	all		vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial_Location subject=Theme
4	lay	infinitive	the wind		the pitying Reeds	vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among reed=Destination
5	pity	gerund				vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

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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