The Aesop for Children, The Frogs and the Ox, sentence 2

As he splashed heavily into the water, he crushed a young Frog into the mud.

Who acts: Ox · What happens: splash, crush · To what, where: water, young Frog, mud

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs and the Ox. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ox), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 splashed	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 splashed	nsubj
3	splashed	splash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 crushed	advcl
4	heavily	heavily	ADV	_	3 splashed	advmod
5	into	into	ADP	_	7 water	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 splashed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 splashed	punct
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 crushed	nsubj
10	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Frog	det
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 Frog	amod
13	Frog	Frog	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 crushed	obj
14	into	into	ADP	_	16 mud	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 mud	det
16	mud	mud	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 crushed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 crushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	splash	past	Ox			the water		heavily property	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into water=Destination
2	crush	past	Ox	a young Frog				into the mud result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent frog=Patient into mud=Result

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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