Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 94

The Dolphin, indignant at these falsehoods, dipped the Monkey under the water and drowned him.

Who acts: Dolphin · What happens: dip, drown · To what, where: Monkey, water, Dolphin

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 (Dolphin), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dolphin	det
2	Dolphin	Dolphin	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 dipped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 indignant	punct
4	indignant	indignant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dolphin	amod
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 falsehoods	case
6	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	7 falsehoods	det
7	falsehoods	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 indignant	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dolphin	punct
9	dipped	dip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Monkey	det
11	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dipped	obj
12	under	under	ADP	_	14 water	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 water	det
14	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 dipped	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 drowned	cc
16	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 dipped	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 drowned	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 dipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	dip	past	the Dolphin	the Monkey		the water			vn funnel-9.3 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme under water=Trajectory
2	drown	past	the Dolphin not said here	Dolphin					vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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