Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 119

But having heard the neigh of the horse, they were so enchanted with the sound, that they tried to imitate it; and, in trying to neigh, they forgot how to sing.

Who acts: Kites, horse · What happens: hear, enchant, try, imitate, neigh, forget · To what, where: neigh, Kites

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 (Kites, horse), 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	_	3 heard	cc
2	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 heard	aux
3	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 neigh	det
5	neigh	neigh	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 heard	obj
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 horse	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 horse	det
8	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 neigh	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 enchanted	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 enchanted	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 enchanted	aux:pass
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 enchanted	advmod
13	enchanted	enchant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 heard	conj
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 sound	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 sound	det
16	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 enchanted	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 tried	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	20 tried	mark
19	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 tried	nsubj
20	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 enchanted	conj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 imitate	mark
22	imitate	imitate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 tried	xcomp
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 imitate	obj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	33 forgot	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 forgot	cc
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 and	punct
27	in	in	SCONJ	_	28 trying	mark
28	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 forgot	advcl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 neigh	mark
30	neigh	neigh	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 trying	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 trying	punct
32	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 forgot	nsubj
33	forgot	forget	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 heard	conj
34	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	36 sing	advmod
35	to	to	PART	_	36 sing	mark
36	sing	sing	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 forgot	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund · perfect		the neigh of the horse		vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer neigh=Stimulus
2	enchant	past · passive		Kites = kite	with the sound	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	try	past	Kites = kite			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	imitate not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kites = kite not said here	neigh		vn patent-101 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	try	gerund	Kites = kite not said here			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	neigh not said to happen	to-infinitive	Kites = kite not said here			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	forget	past	Kites = kite			tree rules
8	not sing speech: express	to-infinitive	Kites = kite not said here			vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	neigh		the horse			nom neigh «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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