Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 77

When the Fox approached the tree, the Dog sprang out and caught him, and tore him to pieces.

Who acts: Fox, Dog · What happens: approach, spring out, catch, tore · To what, where: tree, Dog

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 (Fox, Dog), 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	4 approached	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Fox	det
3	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	nsubj
4	approached	approach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	advcl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approached	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 approached	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dog	det
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sprang	nsubj
10	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	out	out	ADP	_	10 sprang	compound:prt
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 caught	cc
13	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 caught	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tore	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 tore	cc
17	tore	tore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 sprang	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 tore	obj
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 pieces	case
20	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 tore	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sprang	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	approach	past	the Fox	the tree		vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
2	spring out	past	the Dog			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	catch	past	the Dog not said here	Dog		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	tore	past	the Dog not said here	Dog	to pieces	tree rules

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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