Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 119

The Viper, turning about, stung him, and falling into a swoon, the man said to himself, “Woe is me! that while I purposed to hunt another, I am myself fallen unawares into the snares of death.”

Who acts: Viper, man, Woe · What happens: turn about, sting, fall, say, be, purpose · To what, where: gift, swoon, that, Viper, man, another · Speech: someone speaks here

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, man, Woe), 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 Viper	det
2	Viper	Viper	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 stung	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 turning	punct
4	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Viper	acl
5	about	about	ADV	_	4 turning	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Viper	punct
7	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stung	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 falling	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 falling	cc
11	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 stung	advcl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 swoon	case
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 swoon	det
14	swoon	swoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 falling	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 said	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 man	det
17	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 said	nsubj
18	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 stung	conj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 himself	case
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 said	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 me	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 me	punct
23	Woe	woe	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 me	nsubj
24	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 me	cop
25	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 said	ccomp
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 me	punct
27	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 said	obj
28	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 purposed	mark
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 purposed	nsubj
30	purposed	purpose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 said	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 hunt	mark
32	hunt	hunt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 purposed	xcomp
33	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	32 hunt	obj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 fallen	punct
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 fallen	nsubj
36	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 fallen	aux:pass
37	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 fallen	nsubj
38	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 stung	conj
39	unawares	unaware	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fallen	obj
40	into	into	ADP	_	42 snares	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 snares	det
42	snares	snare	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 fallen	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 death	case
44	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 snares	nmod
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	38 fallen	punct
46	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 stung	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn about	gerund	the Viper not said here				about property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	sting	past	the Viper	gift				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	fall	gerund	the Viper not said here				into a swoon result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into swoon=Result
4	say speech: express	past	the man	that	Viper			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Topic to himself=Recipient
5	is a in a quote	present	Woe	the man = man				tree rules
6	purpose speech: other in a quote	past	the man = man					vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	hunt in a quote	to-infinitive	the man = man not said here	another				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent another=Theme
8	fall in a quote	present · passive		the man = man		the snares of death		tree rules
9	snare in a quote			death				nom snare «cognition transitive»: of=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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