Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 135
One of them at once resolved to try and secure the same good fortune for himself.
What happens: resolve, try, secure · To what, where: same good fortune
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: 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | root | root |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 resolved | mark |
| 5 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 resolved | advmod |
| 6 | resolved | resolve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 One | acl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 try | mark |
| 8 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 resolved | xcomp |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 secure | cc |
| 10 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 try | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fortune | det |
| 12 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fortune | amod |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fortune | amod |
| 14 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 secure | obj |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 himself | case |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 10 secure | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 One | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resolve | participle | once property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | try | to-infinitive | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | secure | infinitive | the same good fortune | for Jackdaw | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition fortune=Theme for himself=Beneficiary |
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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