Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 86

A FROG once upon a time came forth from his home in the marsh and proclaimed to all the beasts that he was a learned physician, skilled in the use of drugs and able to heal all diseases.

Who acts: FROG · What happens: come, proclaim, learn, be, skill, heal · To what, where: home, beasts, learned physician, use, diseases, drugs

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 (FROG), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 FROG	det
2	FROG	frog	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	nsubj
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 FROG	advmod
4	upon	upon	ADP	_	6 time	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 time	det
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 FROG	nmod
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	forth	forth	ADV	_	7 came	advmod
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 home	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 home	nmod:poss
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 marsh	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 marsh	det
14	marsh	marsh	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 proclaimed	cc
16	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 marsh	conj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 beasts	case
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 beasts	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 beasts	det
20	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 proclaimed	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 physician	mark
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 physician	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 physician	cop
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 physician	det
25	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 physician	amod
26	physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 beasts	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 skilled	punct
28	skilled	skill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 physician	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 use	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 use	det
31	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 skilled	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 drugs	case
33	drugs	drug	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 use	nmod
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 able	cc
35	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 drugs	conj
36	to	to	PART	_	37 heal	mark
37	heal	heal	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 able	xcomp
38	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	39 diseases	det
39	diseases	disease	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 heal	obj
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	a FROG upon a time			Frog's home	in the marsh; forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from home=Initial_Location
2	proclaim	participle	a FROG upon a time not said here		all beasts			vn confess-37.10 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to beast=Recipient
3	learn	participle						vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	Frog	a learned physician				tree rules
5	skill	participle		a learned physician not said here		the use of drugs		tree rules
6	heal	to-infinitive		all diseases				vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent disease=Patient
7	use			drugs				nom use «act transitive»: of=patient

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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