Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 136

He ran to the river and threw his axe on purpose into the pool at the same place, and sat down on the bank to weep.

Who acts: Jackdaw · What happens: run, throw, sit down, weep · To what, where: axe, purpose, bank

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 (Jackdaw), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 ran	nsubj
2	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 river	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 river	det
5	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 ran	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 threw	cc
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 axe	nmod:poss
9	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obj
10	on	on	ADP	_	11 purpose	case
11	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 pool	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pool	det
14	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
15	at	at	ADP	_	18 place	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 place	det
17	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 place	amod
18	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 sat	cc
21	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 ran	conj
22	down	down	ADP	_	21 sat	compound:prt
23	on	on	ADP	_	25 bank	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 bank	det
25	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sat	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 weep	mark
27	weep	weep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 sat	advcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 ran	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	run	past	Jackdaw			to the river result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to river=Result
2	throw	past	Jackdaw not said here	Jackdaw's axe	purpose	into the pool result; at the same place	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer axe=Theme into pool=Result
3	sit down	past	Jackdaw not said here		the bank		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
4	weep	to-infinitive	Jackdaw not said here				vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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