Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 100
But when war broke out, a heavily armed soldier mounted the Horse, and riding him to the charge, rushed into the very midst of the enemy.
Who acts: war, armed soldier · What happens: break out, mount, ride, rush · To what, where: Horse, charge, midst
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (war, armed soldier), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 mounted | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 broke | advmod |
| 3 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 broke | nsubj |
| 4 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 mounted | advcl |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 broke | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 broke | punct |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 soldier | det |
| 8 | heavily | heavily | ADV | _ | 9 armed | advmod |
| 9 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 soldier | amod |
| 10 | soldier | soldier | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | nsubj |
| 11 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Horse | det |
| 13 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mounted | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 riding | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 riding | cc |
| 16 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 mounted | advcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 riding | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 charge | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 charge | det |
| 20 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 riding | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rushed | punct |
| 22 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 charge | acl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 midst | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 midst | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 midst | advmod |
| 26 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rushed | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 enemy | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 enemy | det |
| 29 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 midst | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break out | past | war | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | mount | past | a armed soldier | the Horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 3 | ride | gerund | a armed soldier not said here | Horse | the charge | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to charge=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | rush | participle | the charge not said here | into the midst of the enemy result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into midst=Result |
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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