Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 61

One of the huntsmen, attracted by the rustling of the leaves, looked back, and seeing the Hart, shot an arrow from his bow and struck it.

Who acts: One, seeing · What happens: attract, look back, see, shoot, strike, rustle · To what, where: huntsmen, Hart, arrow, bow, leaves

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 (One, seeing), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 looked	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	4 huntsmen	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 huntsmen	det
4	huntsmen	huntsman	NOUN	Number=Plur	1 One	nmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 attracted	punct
6	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 huntsmen	acl
7	by	by	ADP	_	9 rustling	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 rustling	det
9	rustling	rustling	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attracted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 leaves	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 leaves	det
12	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 rustling	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct
14	looked	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	back	back	ADV	_	14 looked	advmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 shot	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 shot	cc
18	seeing	see	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 shot	csubj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Hart	det
20	Hart	Hart	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 seeing	obj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 seeing	punct
22	shot	shoot	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 looked	parataxis
23	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 arrow	det
24	arrow	arrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shot	obj
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 bow	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bow	nmod:poss
27	bow	bow	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 shot	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 struck	cc
29	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 shot	conj
30	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 struck	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 looked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attract	participle		the huntsmen not said here		by the rustling of the leaves	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	look back	past	One of the huntsmen				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus
3	see	gerund		the Hart			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer hart=Stimulus
4	shoot	past	seeing	a arrow	bird's bow		vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme from bow=Initial_Location
5	strike	past	seeing not said here	arrow			vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	rustle			the leaves			nom rustling «act transitive»: of=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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