Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 106
Failing to obtain food among the Doves, he returned to the Jackdaws.
Who acts: man · What happens: fail, not obtain, return · To what, where: food
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. 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 | Failing | fail | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 returned | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 obtain | mark |
| 3 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Failing | xcomp |
| 4 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 obtain | obj |
| 5 | among | among | ADP | _ | 7 Doves | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Doves | det |
| 7 | Doves | Dove | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 obtain | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Failing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 Jackdaws | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Jackdaws | det |
| 13 | Jackdaws | Jackdaws | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fail | gerund | man not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | not obtain | to-infinitive | man not said here | food | among the Doves | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset food=Theme | |||
| 3 | return | past | man | to the Jackdaws result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to jackdaws=Result |
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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