Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 38
When he reached it, he discovered to his grief that it contained so little water that he could not possibly get at it.
Who acts: Fox, water · What happens: reach, discover, contain, not get · To what, where: water, little water
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 (Fox, water), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 discovered | advcl |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 reached | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 discovered | nsubj |
| 7 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 grief | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grief | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 discovered | obl |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 contained | mark |
| 12 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 contained | nsubj |
| 13 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 discovered | advcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 little | advmod |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 water | amod |
| 16 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 contained | obj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 get | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 get | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 get | advmod |
| 21 | possibly | possibly | ADV | _ | 22 get | advmod |
| 22 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 contained | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 it | case |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 get | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 discovered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | Fox | water | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | discover | past | Fox | to Fox's grief | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | contain | past | water | little water | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot water=Theme | ||||
| 4 | not get | could | Fox | water | possibly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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