Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 101

The Horse was wounded and fell dead on the battlefield.

Who acts: Horse · What happens: be, fall · To what, where: battlefield

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 (Horse), 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 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 wounded	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wounded	cop
4	wounded	wounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 fell	cc
6	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 wounded	conj
7	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 fell	xcomp
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 battlefield	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 battlefield	det
10	battlefield	battlefield	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fell	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 wounded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Horse					wounded property	tree rules
2	fall	past	the Horse not said here			the battlefield		dead property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on battlefield=Location

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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