Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 71
But shortly afterwards he became entangled in the meshes of a cobweb and was eaten by a spider.
Who acts: spider · What happens: entangle, eat · To what, where: Lion
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 (spider), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 entangled | cc |
| 2 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 entangled | advmod |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 entangled | nsubj |
| 5 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 entangled | aux:pass |
| 6 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 meshes | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 meshes | det |
| 9 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 entangled | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 cobweb | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cobweb | det |
| 12 | cobweb | cobweb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 meshes | nmod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 eaten | cc |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 eaten | aux:pass |
| 15 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 entangled | conj |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 spider | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 spider | det |
| 18 | spider | spider | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 eaten | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 entangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entangle | past · passive | Lion | in the meshes of a cobweb; afterwards property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in mesh=Theme | ||||
| 2 | eat | past · passive | a spider | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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