Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 2
At last, being very angry, he took his image down from its pedestal and dashed it against the wall.
Who acts: MAN · What happens: be, take down, dash, image · To what, where: last, image, pedestal
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 (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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 angry | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 angry | cop |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 angry | advmod |
| 6 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 took | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 took | nsubj |
| 9 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 angry | parataxis |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 image | nmod:poss |
| 11 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obj |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 9 took | advmod |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 pedestal | case |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 pedestal | nmod:poss |
| 15 | pedestal | pedestal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 took | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 dashed | cc |
| 17 | dashed | dash | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 took | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dashed | obj |
| 19 | against | against | ADP | _ | 21 wall | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 wall | det |
| 21 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dashed | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 angry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | last | angry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | take down | past | MAN | MAN's image | image's pedestal | down property | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Theme | ||
| 3 | dash | past | MAN not said here | image | against the wall | vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Instrument against wall=Patient | |||
| 4 | image | MAN | nom image «cognition transitive»: poss=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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