Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 21

The Panther, however, when he had recruited his feeble strength, freed himself with a sudden bound from the pit, and hastened to his den with rapid steps.

Who acts: Shepherd, Panther · What happens: recruit, free, hasten · To what, where: feeble strength, Shepherd, den

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 (Shepherd, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Panther	det
2	Panther	panther	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 freed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Panther	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	9 recruited	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 recruited	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 recruited	nsubj
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 recruited	aux
9	recruited	recruit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	2 Panther	acl
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 strength	nmod:poss
11	feeble	feeble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 strength	amod
12	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 recruited	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Panther	punct
14	freed	free	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 freed	obj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 bound	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 bound	det
18	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 bound	amod
19	bound	bound	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 freed	obl
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 pit	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 pit	det
22	pit	pit	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bound	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 hastened	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 hastened	cc
25	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 freed	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 den	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 den	nmod:poss
28	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 hastened	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 steps	case
30	rapid	rapid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 steps	amod
31	steps	step	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 hastened	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 freed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	recruit	past · perfect	Shepherd	Shepherd's feeble strength		however property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Theme
2	free	past	the Panther	Shepherd		with a sudden bound from the pit	vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source
3	hasten	participle	the Panther not said here		Shepherd's den	with rapid steps	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to den=Destination

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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