Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 54

The Innkeeper, frightened lest he should be attacked, left his new coat in the Thief’s hand and ran as fast as he could into the inn for safety.

Who acts: Innkeeper · What happens: frighten, attack, leave, run · To what, where: Innkeeper, new coat, hand, inn

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 (Innkeeper), 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 Innkeeper	det
2	Innkeeper	Innkeeper	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 left	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 frightened	punct
4	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Innkeeper	acl
5	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	9 attacked	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 attacked	nsubj:pass
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 attacked	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 attacked	aux:pass
9	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 frightened	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Innkeeper	punct
11	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 coat	nmod:poss
13	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 coat	amod
14	coat	coat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	19 hand	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Thief	det
17	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hand	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Thief	case
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 left	obl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ran	cc
21	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 left	conj
22	as	as	ADV	_	23 fast	advmod
23	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 ran	advmod
24	as	as	SCONJ	_	26 could	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 could	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 fast	advcl
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 inn	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 inn	det
29	inn	inn	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 ran	obl
30	for	for	ADP	_	31 safety	case
31	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 inn	nmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 left	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frighten	participle		the Innkeeper not said here			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	attack	should · passive		Innkeeper			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	leave	past	the Innkeeper	Innkeeper's new coat	the Thief's hand		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent coat=Theme in hand=Location
4	run	past	the Innkeeper not said here			into the inn for safety result; fast property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into inn=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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