Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 28

A few days afterwards a heavy wagon passed through the gully and crushed him to death under its wheels.

What happens: pass, crush · To what, where: heavy wagon, gully, One, wheels

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: 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	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 wagon	nsubj
4	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	7 wagon	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 wagon	det
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 wagon	amod
7	wagon	wagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 wagon	acl
9	through	through	ADP	_	11 gully	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 gully	det
11	gully	gully	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 passed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 crushed	cc
13	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 passed	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 crushed	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 crushed	obl
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 wheels	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 wheels	nmod:poss
19	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 crushed	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 wagon	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass	participle		a heavy wagon not said here		the gully			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through gully=Location
2	crush	past		One		death's wheels		to death result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=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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