Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 123

A NUMBER of Flies were attracted to a jar of honey which had been overturned in a housekeeper’s room, and placing their feet in it, ate greedily.

What happens: attract, overturn, place, eat · To what, where: NUMBER, honey, room, feet

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: 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 NUMBER	det
2	NUMBER	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attracted	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 Flies	case
4	Flies	fly	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 NUMBER	nmod
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 attracted	aux:pass
6	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 jar	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 jar	det
9	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 attracted	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 honey	case
11	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 jar	nmod
12	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	15 overturned	nsubj:pass
13	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 overturned	aux
14	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 overturned	aux:pass
15	overturned	overturn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 honey	acl:relcl
16	in	in	ADP	_	20 room	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 housekeeper	det
18	housekeeper	housekeeper	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 housekeeper	case
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 overturned	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 placing	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 placing	cc
23	placing	place	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 attracted	advcl
24	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 feet	nmod:poss
25	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 placing	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	27 it	case
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 placing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 ate	punct
29	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 attracted	parataxis
30	greedily	greedily	ADV	_	29 ate	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 attracted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	attract	past · passive	a NUMBER of Flies		to a jar of honey result	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to jar=Result
2	overturn	past · perfect · passive	honey	a housekeeper's room		tree rules
3	place	gerund	Flies's feet	number		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Theme in it=Destination
4	eat	past			greedily property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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