The Aesop for Children, The Dogs and the Hides, sentence 5

But though they drank and drank until, one after another, all of them had burst with drinking, still, for all their effort, the water in the river remained as high as ever.

Who acts: Dogs · What happens: drink, burst, remain · To what, where: all, river

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: who acts (Dogs), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	17 burst	cc
2	though	though	SCONJ	_	4 drank	mark
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 drank	nsubj
4	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 burst	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 drank	cc
6	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 drank	conj
7	until	until	SCONJ	_	6 drank	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 one	punct
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 drank	parataxis
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 another	case
11	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	9 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 drank	punct
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	17 burst	nsubj:pass
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 them	case
15	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 all	nmod
16	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 burst	aux
17	burst	burst	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 drinking	case
19	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burst	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 still	punct
21	still	still	ADV	_	17 burst	advmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 effort	punct
23	for	for	ADP	_	26 effort	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 effort	det:predet
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 effort	nmod:poss
26	effort	effort	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 burst	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 water	punct
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 effort	conj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 river	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 river	det
32	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 remained	obl
33	remained	remain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 effort	conj
34	as	as	ADV	_	35 high	advmod
35	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 remained	xcomp
36	as	as	ADP	_	37 ever	case
37	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	35 high	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 burst	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	drink	past	Dogs = dog					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	drink	past	Dogs = dog not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	burst	past · perfect · passive		all		still	with drinking; for Dogs's effort and the water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with drinking=Instrument
4	remain	past			the river		high property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in river=Location

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg19994/65/5/