Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 118
While thus looking upwards, he unknowingly trod upon a Viper asleep just before his feet.
Who acts: Viper · What happens: look, tread
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Viper), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:1020): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 3 looking | mark |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 looking | advmod |
| 3 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 trod | advcl |
| 4 | upwards | upwards | ADV | _ | 3 looking | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 looking | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 trod | nsubj |
| 7 | unknowingly | unknowingly | ADV | _ | 8 trod | advmod |
| 8 | trod | tread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 Viper | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Viper | det |
| 11 | Viper | viper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 trod | obl |
| 12 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Viper | amod |
| 13 | just | just | ADV | _ | 16 feet | advmod |
| 14 | before | before | ADP | _ | 16 feet | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feet | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 trod | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 trod | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | look | gerund | Viper not said here | thus, upwards property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | tread | past | Viper | before Viper's feet | upon a Viper; unknowingly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon viper=Trajectory |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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