Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 120
Then, upon assuring the Ass that he would not be injured, the Fox led him to a deep pit and arranged that he should fall into it.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: assure, not injure, lead, arrange, fall · To what, where: Ass, Fox, Bull, deep pit, pit
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fox), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 led | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Then | punct |
| 3 | upon | upon | SCONJ | _ | 4 assuring | mark |
| 4 | assuring | assure | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 led | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ass | det |
| 6 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 assuring | obj |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 injured | mark |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 injured | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 injured | aux |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 injured | advmod |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 injured | aux:pass |
| 12 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 assuring | advcl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 assuring | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Fox | det |
| 15 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | nsubj |
| 16 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 led | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 pit | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 pit | det |
| 20 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 pit | amod |
| 21 | pit | pit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 led | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 arranged | cc |
| 23 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 led | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 fall | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fall | nsubj |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 fall | aux |
| 27 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 arranged | advcl |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 it | case |
| 29 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 fall | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assure | gerund | the Fox not said here | the Ass | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent ass=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | not injure | would · passive | Fox | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | lead | past | the Fox | Bull | a deep pit | then | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to pit=Destination | ||
| 4 | arrange | past | the Fox not said here | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | fall | should | Fox | pit | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into it=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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