Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 12
The Robber being slain, the timid companion ran up and drew his sword, and then, throwing back his traveling cloak said, “I’ll at him, and I’ll take care he shall learn whom he has attacked.”
Who acts: Robber, traveling cloak · What happens: be, run up, draw, throw back, say, 'll · To what, where: sword, care · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Robber, traveling cloak), 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 Robber | det |
| 2 | Robber | Robber | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 3 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 slain | cop |
| 4 | slain | slain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Robber | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 companion | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 companion | det |
| 7 | timid | timid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 companion | amod |
| 8 | companion | companion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 ran | nsubj |
| 9 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 ran | compound:prt |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 drew | cc |
| 12 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ran | conj |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 drew | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 throwing | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 throwing | cc |
| 17 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 throwing | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 throwing | punct |
| 19 | throwing | throw | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ran | advcl |
| 20 | back | back | ADV | _ | 19 throwing | advmod |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 22 | traveling | traveling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cloak | compound |
| 23 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 said | nsubj |
| 24 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 throwing | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’ll | punct |
| 26 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 ’ll | punct |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 ’ll | nsubj |
| 28 | ’ll | 'll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 said | ccomp |
| 29 | at | at | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 ’ll | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 take | cc |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 take | nsubj |
| 34 | ’ll | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 take | aux |
| 35 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ran | parataxis |
| 36 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 take | obj |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 learn | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 learn | aux |
| 39 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 take | conj |
| 40 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 43 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 attacked | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 43 attacked | aux |
| 43 | attacked | attack | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 learn | ccomp |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 35 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | slain property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | run up | past | the Robber | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | draw | past | the Robber not said here | Robber's sword | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | ||||
| 4 | throw back | gerund | the Robber not said here | then | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | say speech: assert | past | Robber's traveling cloak | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | 'll in a quote | present | Robber's traveling cloak = cloak | at Robber | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | take in a quote | future | Robber's traveling cloak = cloak | care | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 8 | learn in a quote | shall | Robber | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 9 | attack in a quote | present · perfect · passive | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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