Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 109
Shortly afterwards, again caught in a snare, he passed by Apollo and made the same promise to offer frankincense to Mercury.
Who acts: Apollo · What happens: catch, pass, make, offer · To what, where: snare, same promise, frankincense, Mercury
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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
| 4 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 caught | advmod |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 snare | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 snare | det |
| 8 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 passed | punct |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 passed | nsubj |
| 11 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | conj |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Apollo | case |
| 13 | Apollo | Apollo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 passed | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 made | cc |
| 15 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 passed | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 promise | det |
| 17 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 promise | amod |
| 18 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 made | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 offer | mark |
| 20 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 promise | acl |
| 21 | frankincense | frankincense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offer | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 Mercury | case |
| 23 | Mercury | Mercury | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 offer | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | a snare | again | afterwards property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | pass | past | Apollo | by Apollo | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by apollo=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | past | Apollo not said here | the same promise | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset promise=Product | ||||
| 4 | offer | to-infinitive | Apollo not said here | frankincense | Mercury | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent frankincense=Theme to mercury=Goal |
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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