Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 124

Their feet, however, became so smeared with the honey that they could not use their wings, nor release themselves, and were suffocated.

Who acts: feet · What happens: become, smear, not use, release, suffocate · To what, where: wings, 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: who acts (feet), 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	Their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 feet	nmod:poss
2	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 became	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 feet	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 became	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 smeared	advmod
8	smeared	smear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 became	xcomp
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 honey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 honey	det
11	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 smeared	obl
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 use	mark
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 use	nsubj
14	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 use	aux
15	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	16 use	advmod
16	use	use	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 smeared	advcl
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 wings	nmod:poss
18	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 use	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 release	punct
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	21 release	cc
21	release	release	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
22	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 release	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 suffocated	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 suffocated	cc
25	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 suffocated	aux:pass
26	suffocated	suffocate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 became	conj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	become	past	Flies's feet		however property	tree rules
2	smear	participle	Flies's feet not said here		with the honey	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with honey=Theme
3	not use	could	feet = foot	feet's wings		vn eat-39.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
4	release	present	Flies's feet not said here	feet = foot		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer themselves=Source
5	suffocate	past · passive	Flies's feet not said here			vn suffocate-40.7 «NP.theme V»

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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