Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 107

A FOX swimming across a rapid river was carried by the force of the current into a very deep ravine, where he lay for a long time very much bruised, sick, and unable to move.

Who acts: FOX, force · What happens: swim, carry, lie, bruise, move · To what, where: rapid river, FOX, deep ravine

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (FOX, force), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 FOX	det
2	FOX	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	nsubj:pass
3	swimming	swim	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 FOX	acl
4	across	across	ADP	_	7 river	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 river	det
6	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 river	amod
7	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 swimming	obl
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	aux:pass
9	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	by	by	ADP	_	12 force	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 force	det
12	force	force	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 current	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 current	det
15	current	current	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 force	nmod
16	into	into	ADP	_	20 ravine	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 ravine	det
18	very	very	ADV	_	19 deep	advmod
19	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 ravine	amod
20	ravine	ravine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carried	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 lay	punct
22	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	24 lay	advmod
23	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 lay	nsubj
24	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 carried	parataxis
25	for	for	ADP	_	28 time	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 time	det
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 time	amod
28	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 lay	obl
29	very	very	ADV	_	30 much	advmod
30	much	much	ADV	_	31 bruised	advmod
31	bruised	bruise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 lay	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 sick	punct
33	sick	sick	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 bruised	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 unable	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 unable	cc
36	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 lay	conj
37	to	to	PART	_	38 move	mark
38	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 unable	xcomp
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 carried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	swim	gerund	a FOX not said here		a rapid river		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across river=Trajectory
2	carry	past · passive	the force of the current	a FOX	a deep ravine		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
3	lie	past	Fox			time	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	bruise	participle	Fox not said here				vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	move	to-infinitive	Fox not said here				vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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