Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 95
A FOX was mounting a hedge when he lost his footing and caught hold of a Bramble to save himself.
Who acts: FOX · What happens: mount, lose, catch, save, hold · To what, where: hedge, footing, hold, Fox, Bramble
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 FOX | det |
| 2 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounting | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounting | aux |
| 4 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 hedge | det |
| 6 | hedge | hedge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounting | obj |
| 7 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 9 lost | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 lost | nsubj |
| 9 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounting | advcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 footing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | footing | footing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lost | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 caught | cc |
| 13 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 lost | conj |
| 14 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 caught | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Bramble | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 Bramble | det |
| 17 | Bramble | bramble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hold | nmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 save | mark |
| 19 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 caught | advcl |
| 20 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 save | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past · progressive | a FOX | a hedge | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hedge=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | Fox | Fox's footing | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent footing=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | catch | past | Fox not said here | hold of a Bramble | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | ||||
| 4 | save | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | Fox | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | a Bramble | nom hold «act 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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