Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 60

Supposing all danger to have passed, the Hart began to nibble the tendrils of the Vine.

Who acts: Hart · What happens: suppose, pass, begin, nibble · To what, where: danger, tendrils

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 (Hart), 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	Supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 began	advcl
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 danger	det
3	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Supposing	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	6 passed	mark
5	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 passed	aux
6	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 danger	acl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Supposing	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Hart	det
9	Hart	Hart	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 began	nsubj
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 nibble	mark
12	nibble	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tendrils	det
14	tendrils	tendril	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 nibble	obj
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 Vine	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Vine	det
17	Vine	Vine	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 tendrils	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	suppose	gerund	the Hart not said here	all danger	vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent danger=Attribute
2	pass	to-infinitive · perfect	the Hart not said here	all danger not said here	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	begin	past	the Hart		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	nibble	to-infinitive	the Hart not said here	the tendrils of the Vine	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendril=Patient

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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