Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 94

Seeing his own shadow reflected in the water, he greatly admired the size and variety of his horns, but felt angry with himself for having such slender and weak feet.

Who acts: Stag · What happens: see, reflect, admire, feel, have, shadow · To what, where: own shadow, water, size, such slender feet

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 (Stag), 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	Seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 admired	advcl
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	4 shadow	nmod:poss
3	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 shadow	amod
4	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Seeing	obj
5	reflected	reflect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 shadow	acl
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 water	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 water	det
8	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 reflected	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Seeing	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 admired	nsubj
11	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	12 admired	advmod
12	admired	admire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 size	det
14	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 admired	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 variety	cc
16	variety	variety	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 size	conj
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 horns	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 horns	nmod:poss
19	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 variety	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 felt	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	22 felt	cc
22	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 admired	conj
23	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 felt	xcomp
24	with	with	ADP	_	25 himself	case
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	22 felt	obl
26	for	for	SCONJ	_	27 having	mark
27	having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 felt	advcl
28	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feet	amod
29	slender	slender	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 feet	amod
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 weak	cc
31	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 slender	conj
32	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 having	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 admired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund	Stag not said here	Stag's own shadow			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
2	reflect	participle		Stag's own shadow not said here	the water		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	admire	past	Stag	the size and variety of Stag's horns		greatly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer size=Stimulus
4	feel	past	Stag not said here			with Stag; angry property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
5	have	gerund	Stag not said here	such slender feet			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foot=Patient
6	shadow		Stag				nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=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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