The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 9
Instead he struck at the drinking horn, hanging at the Countryman's belt, and into it let fly the poison of his fangs.
Who acts: Serpent, Countryman · What happens: strike, hang, let, fly · To what, where: belt, poison
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Serpent and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent, Countryman), 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 | Instead | instead | ADV | _ | 3 struck | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 struck | nsubj |
| 3 | struck | strike | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 horn | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 horn | det |
| 6 | drinking | drinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 horn | compound |
| 7 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 struck | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 hanging | punct |
| 9 | hanging | hang | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 struck | advcl |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 belt | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Countryman | det |
| 12 | Countryman | Countryman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 belt | nmod:poss |
| 13 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 12 Countryman | case |
| 14 | belt | belt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 hanging | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 let | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 let | cc |
| 17 | into | into | SCONJ | _ | 19 let | mark |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 let | nsubj |
| 19 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 struck | conj |
| 20 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 let | xcomp |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 poison | det |
| 22 | poison | poison | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fly | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fangs | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fangs | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fangs | fang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 poison | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 struck | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strike | past | Serpent | at the drinking horn; instead property | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at horn=Patient | ||||
| 2 | hang | gerund | Serpent not said here | the Countryman's belt | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at belt=Location | ||||
| 3 | let | past | Countryman | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | fly | infinitive | Countryman not said here | the poison of Serpent's fangs | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location poison=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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