Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 35
The next day he attempted to snatch a lamb from the fold, but he himself fell prey to the huntsmen and hounds.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: attempt, snatch, fall · To what, where: lamb, fold, prey
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 (Fox), 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 | 3 day | det |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 attempted | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 attempted | nsubj |
| 5 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 snatch | mark |
| 7 | snatch | snatch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 attempted | xcomp |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 lamb | det |
| 9 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snatch | obj |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 fold | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 fold | det |
| 12 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 snatch | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 fell | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 fell | cc |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 fell | nsubj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes | 15 he | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 attempted | conj |
| 18 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 fell | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 huntsmen | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 huntsmen | det |
| 21 | huntsmen | huntsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 fell | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 hounds | cc |
| 23 | hounds | hound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 huntsmen | conj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | Fox | day | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | snatch not said to happen | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | a lamb | the fold | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme from fold=Source | |||
| 3 | fall | past | Fox | prey | to the huntsmen and hounds result | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient prey=Extent to huntsman=Result |
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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