Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 34

The Serpent, irritated at the escape of his prey, injected his poison into the drinking horn of the countryman.

Who acts: Serpent, prey · What happens: irritate, inject, escape · To what, where: Serpent, escape, poison, drinking horn

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 (Serpent, prey), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Serpent	det
2	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 injected	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 irritated	punct
4	irritated	irritate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Serpent	acl
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 escape	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 escape	det
7	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 irritated	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 prey	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 prey	nmod:poss
10	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 escape	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Serpent	punct
12	injected	inject	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 poison	nmod:poss
14	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 injected	obj
15	into	into	ADP	_	18 horn	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 horn	det
17	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 horn	compound
18	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 injected	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 countryman	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 countryman	det
21	countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 horn	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 injected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	irritate	participle		the Serpent not said here	the escape of countryman's prey	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	inject	past	the Serpent	countryman's poison	the drinking horn of the countryman	vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent poison=Patient
3	escape		countryman's prey			nom escape «act 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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