Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 49
A violent fever suddenly set in, from which he died not many days later.
Who acts: Prince · What happens: set in, die · To what, where: violent fever
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 (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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 fever | det |
| 2 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fever | amod |
| 3 | fever | fever | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 set | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 5 set | advmod |
| 5 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 set | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 died | punct |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 which | case |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 died | obl |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 died | nsubj |
| 11 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 set | conj |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 many | advmod |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 later | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 died | advmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in | participle · passive | a violent fever | suddenly property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result | ||||
| 2 | die | past | Prince | late property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient from which=Causer |
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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