Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 118

A DOG, used to eating eggs, saw an Oyster and, opening his mouth to its widest extent, swallowed it down with the utmost relish, supposing it to be an egg.

Who acts: DOG, Oyster · What happens: use, eat, see, open, swallow down, suppose · To what, where: DOG, eggs, Oyster, mouth, widest extent, egg

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 (DOG, Oyster), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 DOG	det
2	DOG	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 used	punct
4	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 DOG	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 eating	case
6	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 used	xcomp
7	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 eating	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 DOG	punct
9	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Oyster	det
11	Oyster	oyster	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 saw	obj
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 opening	cc
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 opening	punct
14	opening	open	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 saw	conj
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 mouth	nmod:poss
16	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opening	obj
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 extent	case
18	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 extent	nmod:poss
19	widest	wide	ADJ	Degree=Sup	20 extent	amod
20	extent	extent	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 opening	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 swallowed	punct
22	swallowed	swallow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 saw	parataxis
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 swallowed	obj
24	down	down	ADP	_	22 swallowed	compound:prt
25	with	with	ADP	_	28 relish	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 relish	det
27	utmost	utmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 relish	amod
28	relish	relish	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 swallowed	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 supposing	punct
30	supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 swallowed	advcl
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 supposing	obj
32	to	to	PART	_	35 egg	mark
33	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 egg	cop
34	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 egg	det
35	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 supposing	advcl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a DOG not said here			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	eat	infinitive		eggs			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient
3	see	past	a DOG	a Oyster			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer oyster=Stimulus
4	open	gerund	a DOG not said here	dog's mouth	Oyster's widest extent		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent mouth=Patient to extent=Recipient
5	swallow down	past		Oyster		with the utmost relish	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	suppose	gerund		Oyster			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
7	is a	to-infinitive		a egg			tree rules
8	extend		Oyster				nom extent «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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