Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 48
But one of the tree’s prickles pierced his finger and caused great pain and inflammation, so that the young Prince fell down in a fainting fit.
Who acts: one, young Prince · What happens: pierce, cause, fall down · To what, where: finger, great pain, fainting fit
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 (one, young Prince), 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 | _ | 8 pierced | cc |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 pierced | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 prickles | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 tree | det |
| 5 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prickles | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 tree | case |
| 7 | prickles | prickle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 one | nmod |
| 8 | pierced | pierce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 finger | nmod:poss |
| 10 | finger | finger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 pierced | obj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caused | cc |
| 12 | caused | cause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pierced | conj |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 pain | amod |
| 14 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caused | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 inflammation | cc |
| 16 | inflammation | inflammation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pain | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fell | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 fell | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Prince | det |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 Prince | amod |
| 22 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | nsubj |
| 23 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 pierced | conj |
| 24 | down | down | ADV | _ | 23 fell | advmod |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 fit | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 fit | det |
| 27 | fainting | fainting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 fit | compound |
| 28 | fit | fit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fell | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 pierced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pierce | past | one of the tree's prickles | dream's finger | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent finger=Patient | ||||
| 2 | cause | past | one of the tree's prickles not said here | great pain and inflammation | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition pain=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fall down | past | the young Prince | a fainting fit | down property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in fit=Location |
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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