Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 106
A shower of snow fell upon them, and, finding the Olive full of foliage, it settled upon its branches and broke them down with its weight, at once despoiling it of its beauty and killing the tree.
Who acts: shower · What happens: fall, find, settle, break down, despoil, kill · To what, where: Olive, leaves, shower, tree
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shower), 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 shower | det |
| 2 | shower | shower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 fell | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 snow | case |
| 4 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 shower | nmod |
| 5 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 them | case |
| 7 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 fell | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 settled | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 settled | cc |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finding | punct |
| 11 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 settled | ccomp |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Olive | det |
| 13 | Olive | olive | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 finding | obj |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Olive | amod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 foliage | case |
| 16 | foliage | foliage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 full | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 finding | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 settled | nsubj |
| 19 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 20 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 22 branches | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 branches | nmod:poss |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 settled | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 broke | cc |
| 24 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 fell | conj |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 broke | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 broke | compound:prt |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 weight | case |
| 28 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 weight | nmod:poss |
| 29 | weight | weight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 broke | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 despoiling | punct |
| 31 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 33 despoiling | mark |
| 32 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 33 despoiling | advmod |
| 33 | despoiling | despoil | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 broke | advcl |
| 34 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 despoiling | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 beauty | case |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 37 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 despoiling | obl |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 killing | cc |
| 39 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 despoiling | conj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 tree | det |
| 41 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 killing | obj |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a shower of snow | upon leaves = leaf | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon they=Location | ||||
| 2 | find | gerund | shower not said here | the Olive | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent olive=Topic | ||||
| 3 | settle | past | shower | upon shower's branches | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | break down | past | a shower of snow not said here | leaves = leaf | with shower's weight | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent they=Patient with weight=Instrument | |||
| 5 | despoil | gerund | a shower of snow not said here | shower | of shower's beauty; once property | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Source of beauty=Theme | |||
| 6 | kill | gerund | a shower of snow not said here | the tree | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme |
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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