Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 14

Perceiving them to be very heavy, they danced about for joy and supposed that they had taken a large catch.

Who acts: Perceiving, nets · What happens: perceive, be, dance, suppose, take · To what, where: nets, large catch

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 (Perceiving, nets), 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	Perceiving	perceive	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 heavy	csubj
2	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Perceiving	obj
3	to	to	PART	_	6 heavy	mark
4	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	6 heavy	cop
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 heavy	advmod
6	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 danced	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 danced	nsubj
9	danced	dance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heavy	parataxis
10	about	about	ADV	_	9 danced	advmod
11	for	for	ADP	_	12 joy	case
12	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 danced	obl
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 supposed	cc
14	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 danced	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	18 taken	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 taken	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 taken	aux
18	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 supposed	xcomp
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 catch	det
20	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 catch	amod
21	catch	catch	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 taken	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 heavy	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	perceive	gerund		nets = net		vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive	Perceiving		heavy property	tree rules
3	dance	past	nets = net		for joy; about property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	suppose	participle	nets = net not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
5	take	past · perfect	nets = net	a large catch		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent catch=Theme

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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