Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 79

When the Partridge was put into the poultry-yard, they struck at it and followed it about, so that the Partridge became grievously troubled and supposed that he was thus evilly treated because he was a stranger.

Who acts: Partridges, Partridge, pilot · What happens: put, strike, follow, become, suppose, be · To what, where: Partridge, yard, stranger

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 (Partridges, Partridge, pilot), 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	SCONJ	_	5 put	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Partridge	det
3	Partridge	Partridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 put	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	aux:pass
5	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	into	into	ADP	_	10 yard	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 yard	det
8	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yard	compound
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 poultry	punct
10	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 put	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 struck	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 struck	nsubj
13	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 put	conj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 it	case
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 struck	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 followed	cc
17	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 struck	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 followed	obj
19	about	about	ADV	_	17 followed	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 became	punct
21	so	so	SCONJ	_	25 became	mark
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 became	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Partridge	det
24	Partridge	Partridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 became	nsubj
25	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 struck	conj
26	grievously	grievously	ADV	_	27 troubled	advmod
27	troubled	troubled	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 became	xcomp
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 supposed	cc
29	supposed	suppose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 troubled	conj
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 evilly	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 evilly	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 evilly	cop
33	thus	thus	ADV	_	34 evilly	advmod
34	evilly	evilly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 supposed	xcomp
35	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 evilly	conj
36	because	because	SCONJ	_	40 stranger	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 stranger	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 stranger	cop
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 stranger	det
40	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 treated	advcl
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	put	past · passive		the Partridge	into the poultry yard	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal
2	strike	past	Partridges = partridge		at yard	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at it=Patient
3	follow	past	Partridges = partridge not said here	yard	about property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
4	become	past	the Partridge		troubled property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
5	suppose	participle	the Partridge not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent
6	is	past	pilot		evilly, thus property	tree rules
7	treat	participle	pilot not said here			vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	pilot	a stranger		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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