Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 108
But when rescued from his danger, he forgot his promise.
Who acts: Apollo · What happens: rescue, forget, promise · To what, where: danger, promise
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Apollo), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 forgot | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 rescued | advmod |
| 3 | rescued | rescue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 forgot | advcl |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 danger | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 danger | nmod:poss |
| 6 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rescued | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 rescued | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 forgot | nsubj |
| 9 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 promise | nmod:poss |
| 11 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 forgot | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 forgot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rescue | participle | Apollo not said here | Apollo's danger | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from danger=Source | ||||
| 2 | forget | past | Apollo | Apollo's promise | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | promise | Apollo | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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