Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 19
The King of the Apes, enraged at hearing these truths, gave him over to the teeth and claws of his companions.
Who acts: King · What happens: enrage, hear, give over · To what, where: truths, king
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 (King), 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 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 enraged | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Apes | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Apes | det |
| 5 | Apes | Ape | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 King | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 enraged | punct |
| 7 | enraged | enrage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 9 hearing | mark |
| 9 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 enraged | advcl |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 truths | det |
| 11 | truths | truth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 hearing | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gave | punct |
| 13 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 enraged | conj |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 gave | iobj |
| 15 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 gave | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 teeth | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 teeth | det |
| 18 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 gave | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 claws | cc |
| 20 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 teeth | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 companions | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 companions | nmod:poss |
| 23 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 claws | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 enraged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enrage | past | the King of the Apes | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | the King of the Apes not said here | this truths | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer truth=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | give over | past | the King of the Apes not said here | king | to the teeth and claws of king's companions | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to tooth=Recipient |
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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