Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 107

But finding the Fig-Tree denuded of leaves, the snow fell through to the ground, and did not injure it at all.

Who acts: finding, snow · What happens: find, denude, fall through, not injure · To what, where: Fig Tree, tree, all

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 (finding, snow), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 denuded	cc
2	finding	find	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 denuded	csubj
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Tree	det
4	Fig	Fig	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tree	compound
5	-	-	PUNCT	_	4 Fig	punct
6	Tree	Tree	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 finding	obj
7	denuded	denude	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 leaves	case
9	leaves	leaf	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 denuded	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 fell	punct
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 snow	det
12	snow	snow	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	nsubj
13	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 denuded	conj
14	through	through	ADV	_	13 fell	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 ground	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 ground	det
17	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 fell	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 injure	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 injure	cc
20	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 injure	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 injure	advmod
22	injure	injure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 denuded	advcl
23	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 injure	obj
24	at	at	ADP	_	25 all	case
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 injure	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 denuded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	gerund		the Fig Tree			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Topic
2	denude	past	finding			of leaves	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent of leaf=Theme
3	fall through	past	the snow			to the ground; through property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme
4	not injure	past · do-support	finding not said here	tree	all		tree rules

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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