The Aesop for Children, The Crow and the Pitcher, sentence 3

The poor thing felt as if he must die of thirst.

Who acts: matter · What happens: feel, die · To what, where: poor thing

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Crow and the Pitcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (matter), 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	3 thing	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 thing	amod
3	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
4	felt	feel	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 thing	acl
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 die	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 die	mark
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 die	nsubj
8	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 die	aux
9	die	die	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 felt	advcl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 thirst	case
11	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 die	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thing	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	feel	participle		the poor thing not said here					vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
2	die	must	matter					of thirst	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of thirst=Causer

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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