Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 79

The Fox on her return, discovered what had happened, but was less grieved for the death of her young than for her inability to avenge them.

Who acts: Fox, young · What happens: discover, happen, grieve, avenge, return, die · To what, where: branches

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 (Fox, young), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Fox	det
2	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 discovered	nsubj
3	on	on	ADP	_	5 return	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 return	nmod:poss
5	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Fox	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Fox	punct
7	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	10 happened	nsubj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 happened	aux
10	happened	happen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 discovered	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 grieved	punct
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	15 grieved	cc
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 grieved	aux:pass
14	less	less	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 grieved	advmod
15	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 discovered	conj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 death	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 death	det
18	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grieved	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 young	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 young	nmod:poss
21	young	young	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 death	nmod
22	than	than	ADP	_	25 inability	case
23	for	for	ADP	_	25 inability	case
24	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 inability	nmod:poss
25	inability	inability	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 grieved	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 avenge	mark
27	avenge	avenge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 grieved	advcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 avenge	obj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 discovered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	discover	past	the Fox on Fox's return			vn discover-84-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	happen	past · perfect				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	grieve	past · passive	the Fox on Fox's return not said here		for the death of Fox's young; than Fox's inability; less property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
4	avenge	to-infinitive	the Fox on Fox's return not said here	branches = branch		tree rules
5	return		Fox			nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent
6	die		Fox's young			nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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