Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 11
The one fled away; the other stood his ground and defended himself with his stout right hand.
Who acts: one, other · What happens: flee away, stand, defend · To what, where: ground, Tree
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 (one, other), 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 one | det |
| 2 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 fled | nsubj |
| 3 | fled | flee | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | away | away | ADV | _ | 3 fled | advmod |
| 5 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 stood | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 other | det |
| 7 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 stood | nsubj |
| 8 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 fled | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 ground | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 stood | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 defended | cc |
| 12 | defended | defend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 stood | conj |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 12 defended | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 16 | stout | stout | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 17 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hand | amod |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 defended | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 fled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | flee away | past | the one | away property | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | the other | Tree's ground | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ground=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | defend | past | the other not said here | Tree | with Tree's stout right hand | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary |
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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