Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 126
All of a sudden Robbers rushed upon them from their hiding-places, and in the scuffle with their owners, wounded with a sword the Mule carrying the treasure, which they greedily seized while taking no notice of the grain.
Who acts: All, Mule, Mules · What happens: rush, wound, carry, seize, take, notice · To what, where: hiding places, scuffle, treasure, notice, grain
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 (All, Mule, Mules), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 rushed | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Robbers | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Robbers | det |
| 4 | sudden | sudden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Robbers | amod |
| 5 | Robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 All | nmod |
| 6 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 8 them | case |
| 8 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 rushed | obl |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 places | case |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 places | nmod:poss |
| 11 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 places | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 hiding | punct |
| 13 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 rushed | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scuffle | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 scuffle | cc |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 scuffle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 scuffle | det |
| 18 | scuffle | scuffle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rushed | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 owners | case |
| 20 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 owners | nmod:poss |
| 21 | owners | owner | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 scuffle | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 wounded | punct |
| 23 | wounded | wound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 scuffle | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 sword | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 sword | det |
| 26 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 wounded | obl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Mule | det |
| 28 | Mule | mule | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 sword | conj |
| 29 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 Mule | acl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 treasure | det |
| 31 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carrying | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seized | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 seized | obj |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seized | nsubj |
| 35 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 36 seized | advmod |
| 36 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 treasure | parataxis |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 38 taking | mark |
| 38 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 seized | advcl |
| 39 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 40 notice | det |
| 40 | notice | notice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 taking | obj |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 grain | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 grain | det |
| 43 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 notice | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | past | All | Mules's hiding places | upon Mules = mule; in the scuffle with Mules's owners | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon they=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | wound | participle | the scuffle with Mules's owners not said here | with a sword and the Mule | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | the Mule not said here | the treasure | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 4 | seize | past | Mules = mule | the treasure | greedily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 5 | take | gerund | Mules = mule not said here | no notice of the grain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme | ||||
| 6 | notice | the grain | nom notice «communication transitive»: of=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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