Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 40

At last he collected as many stones as he could carry and dropped them one by one with his beak into the pitcher, until he brought the water within his reach and thus saved his life.

Who acts: Fox · What happens: collect, carry, drop, bring, save · To what, where: last, stones, pitcher, water, life

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), 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	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 collected	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 collected	nsubj
4	collected	collect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 stones	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 stones	amod
7	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 collected	obl
8	as	as	SCONJ	_	11 carry	mark
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 carry	nsubj
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 carry	aux
11	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 collected	advcl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 dropped	cc
13	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 collected	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 dropped	obj
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 dropped	obj
16	by	by	ADP	_	17 one	case
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 one	nmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 beak	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 beak	nmod:poss
20	beak	beak	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	obl
21	into	into	ADP	_	23 pitcher	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pitcher	det
23	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 dropped	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 brought	punct
25	until	until	SCONJ	_	27 brought	mark
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 brought	nsubj
27	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 collected	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 water	det
29	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obj
30	within	within	ADP	_	32 reach	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 reach	nmod:poss
32	reach	reach	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 brought	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 saved	cc
34	thus	thus	ADV	_	35 saved	advmod
35	saved	save	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 collected	conj
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 life	nmod:poss
37	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 saved	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 collected	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	collect	past	Fox		last	as many stones	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	carry	could	Fox				vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	drop	past	Fox not said here	stones = stone	the pitcher	with Fox's beak	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme one=Destination
4	bring	past	Fox	the water		within Fox's reach	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent water=Theme
5	save	past	Fox not said here	Fox's life		thus property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme

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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