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

When night came she went forth with silent foot and obtained food for herself and her kittens, but feigning to be afraid, she kept a lookout all through the day.

Who acts: night, Sow · What happens: come, go, obtain, feign, be, keep · To what, where: food, lookout

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 (night, 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 came	advmod
2	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 kept	advcl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 went	nsubj
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
6	forth	forth	ADV	_	5 went	advmod
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 foot	case
8	silent	silent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 foot	amod
9	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 obtained	cc
11	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
12	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 obtained	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 herself	case
14	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	11 obtained	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 kittens	cc
16	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 kittens	nmod:poss
17	kittens	kitten	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 herself	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 feigning	punct
19	but	but	CCONJ	_	20 feigning	cc
20	feigning	feign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 came	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	23 afraid	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 afraid	cop
23	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 feigning	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 kept	nsubj
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 lookout	det
28	lookout	lookout	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obj
29	all	all	ADV	_	32 day	advmod
30	through	through	ADP	_	32 day	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 day	det
32	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl:unmarked
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	night				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Sow			with silent foot; forth property	vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with foot=Beneficiary
3	obtain	past	Sow not said here	food		for Sow	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent food=Theme for herself=Asset
4	feign	gerund	night not said here				vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
5	is	to-infinitive	night not said here			afraid property	tree rules
6	keep	past	Sow	a lookout	day		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lookout=Theme

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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