The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Hides, sentence 4

All fell to lapping up the water as fast as they could.

What happens: fall, lap up · To what, where: water

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dogs and the Hides. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 fell	advmod
2	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	SCONJ	_	4 lapping	mark
4	lapping	lap	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 fell	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 lapping	compound:prt
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 water	det
7	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lapping	obj
8	as	as	ADV	_	9 fast	advmod
9	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 lapping	advmod
10	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 could	mark
11	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 could	nsubj
12	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 fast	advcl
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past							vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	lap up	gerund		the water				fast property	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Patient

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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