Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 45

He found a serpent in the upper branches of the tree, and again being greatly alarmed, he threw himself into the river, where a crocodile caught him and ate him.

Who acts: Minerva, crocodile · What happens: find, alarm, throw, catch, eat · To what, where: serpent, upper branches, Minerva, river

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 (Minerva, crocodile), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 found	nsubj
2	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 serpent	det
4	serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 found	obj
5	in	in	ADP	_	8 branches	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 branches	det
7	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 branches	amod
8	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 found	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 tree	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 tree	det
11	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 branches	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 alarmed	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 alarmed	cc
14	again	again	ADV	_	17 alarmed	advmod
15	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 alarmed	aux:pass
16	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	17 alarmed	advmod
17	alarmed	alarm	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 found	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 threw	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 threw	nsubj
20	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 found	parataxis
21	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	20 threw	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 river	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 river	det
24	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 threw	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 caught	punct
26	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	29 caught	advmod
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 crocodile	det
28	crocodile	crocodile	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 caught	nsubj
29	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 threw	conj
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 caught	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ate	cc
32	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 caught	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ate	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	find	past	Minerva	a serpent	the upper branches of the tree			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent serpent=Topic
2	alarm	gerund · passive	Minerva not said here			again	greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
3	throw	past	Minerva	Minerva			into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer himself=Theme into river=Result
4	catch	past	a crocodile	Minerva				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	eat	past	a crocodile not said here	Minerva				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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