Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 120

Not being able to reach them, they agreed to drink up the river, but it happened that they burst themselves with drinking long before they reached the hides.

Who acts: Dogs, it · What happens: not be, reach, agree, drink up, happen, burst · To what, where: Dogs, river, hides

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dogs, it), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	3 able	advmod
2	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 able	cop
3	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 reach	mark
5	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 able	xcomp
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 reach	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 agreed	punct
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 agreed	nsubj
9	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 able	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 drink	mark
11	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 agreed	xcomp
12	up	up	ADP	_	11 drink	compound:prt
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 river	det
14	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 drink	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 happened	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 happened	cc
17	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 happened	nsubj
18	happened	happen	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 agreed	conj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 burst	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 burst	nsubj
21	burst	burst	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 happened	advcl
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 burst	obj
23	with	with	SCONJ	_	24 drinking	mark
24	drinking	drink	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 burst	advcl
25	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	24 drinking	advmod
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 reached	mark
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 reached	nsubj
28	reached	reach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 drinking	advcl
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 hides	det
30	hides	hide	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 reached	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 able	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	not is	gerund			able property	tree rules
2	reach	to-infinitive		Dogs = dog		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme
3	agree speech: agree	past	Dogs = dog			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	drink up not said to happen	to-infinitive	Dogs = dog not said here	the river		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent river=Patient
5	happen	past	it			vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	burst	past	Dogs = dog	Dogs = dog		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
7	drink	gerund	Dogs = dog not said here		long property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	reach	past	Dogs = dog	the hides		vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hide=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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