Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 18

A PANTHER, by some mischance, fell into a pit.

Who acts: PANTHER · What happens: fall · To what, where: pit

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 (PANTHER), 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 PANTHER	det
2	PANTHER	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 mischance	punct
4	by	by	ADP	_	6 mischance	case
5	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	6 mischance	det
6	mischance	mischance	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 PANTHER	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 PANTHER	punct
8	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 pit	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 pit	det
11	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 fell	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a PANTHER and some mischance					into a pit result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into pit=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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