The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Snake, sentence 4

The Snake soon revived, and when it had enough strength, bit the man who had been so kind to it.

Who acts: Snake, cold, man · What happens: revive, have, bite, be · To what, where: enough strength, man, cold

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Snake, cold, man), 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 Snake	det
2	Snake	Snake	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 revived	nsubj
3	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 revived	advmod
4	revived	revive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 had	punct
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 had	cc
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 had	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 had	nsubj
9	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 revived	conj
10	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 strength	amod
11	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 had	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 bit	punct
13	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 revived	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 man	det
15	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 bit	obj
16	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 kind	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 kind	aux
18	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 kind	cop
19	so	so	ADV	_	20 kind	advmod
20	kind	kind	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 man	acl:relcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 it	case
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 kind	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 revived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	revive	past	the Snake			soon property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	have	past	cold	enough strength			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Patient
3	bite	past	the Snake not said here	the man			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient
4	is	past · perfect	the man		cold	kind property	tree rules

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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