Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 8
Having instilled these fears into the Sow, she went and pretended to hide herself in the hollow of the tree.
Who acts: Sow · What happens: have, instil, go, pretend, hide · To what, where: instilled fears, Sow, hollow
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 (Sow), 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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 went | advcl |
| 2 | instilled | instil | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fears | amod |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 fears | det |
| 4 | fears | fear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Having | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 Sow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sow | det |
| 7 | Sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 went | nsubj |
| 10 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 pretended | cc |
| 12 | pretended | pretend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 went | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 hide | mark |
| 14 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 pretended | xcomp |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 hide | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hollow | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hollow | det |
| 18 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hide | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 tree | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 tree | det |
| 21 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hollow | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Sow not said here | this instilled fears | the Sow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fear=Patient | |||
| 2 | instil | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | go | past | Sow | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | pretend | past | Sow not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | hide | to-infinitive | Sow not said here | Sow | the hollow of the tree | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent herself=Patient in hollow=Location |
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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