The Aesop for Children, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox, sentence 2

The two fought furiously for the prize until they had received so many wounds that both sank down unable to continue the battle.

Who acts: two, they, both · What happens: fight, receive, sink down, continue · To what, where: many wounds, battle

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lion, the Bear, and the Fox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, they, both), 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 two	det
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 fought	nsubj
3	fought	fight	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	furiously	furiously	ADV	_	3 fought	advmod
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 prize	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 prize	det
7	prize	prize	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fought	obl
8	until	until	SCONJ	_	11 received	mark
9	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 received	nsubj
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 received	aux
11	received	receive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 fought	advcl
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 many	advmod
13	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 wounds	amod
14	wounds	wound	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 received	obj
15	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 sank	obj
16	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	17 sank	nsubj
17	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 wounds	acl:relcl
18	down	down	ADP	_	17 sank	compound:prt
19	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sank	xcomp
20	to	to	PART	_	21 continue	mark
21	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 unable	xcomp
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 battle	det
23	battle	battle	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 continue	obj
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fight	past	the two		for the prize; furiously property	vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	receive	past · perfect	they	many wounds		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wound=Theme
3	sink down	past	both	many wounds	unable property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent that=Patient
4	continue	to-infinitive	both not said here	the battle		vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent battle=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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