The Aesop for Children, The Lion and the Gnat, sentence 8

The Gnat buzzed away to tell the whole world about his victory, but instead he flew straight into a spider's web.

Who acts: Gnat · What happens: buzz away, tell, fly · To what, where: whole world, web · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion and the Gnat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gnat), 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 Gnat	det
2	Gnat	Gnat	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 buzzed	nsubj
3	buzzed	buzz	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 buzzed	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 tell	mark
6	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 buzzed	xcomp
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 world	det
8	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 world	amod
9	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	iobj
10	about	about	ADP	_	12 victory	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 victory	nmod:poss
12	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 tell	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 flew	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 flew	cc
15	instead	instead	ADV	_	17 flew	advmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 flew	nsubj
17	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 buzzed	conj
18	straight	straight	ADV	_	23 web	advmod
19	into	into	ADP	_	23 web	case
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 spider	det
21	spider	spider	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 web	nmod:poss
22	's	's	PART	_	21 spider	case
23	web	web	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 flew	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 buzzed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	buzz away	past	the Gnat			away property	tree rules
2	tell speech: assert	to-infinitive	the Gnat not said here		the whole world	about Gnat's victory	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent world=Recipient about victory=Topic
3	fly	past	Gnat	a spider's web		instead property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location web=Theme

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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