Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 136

He had compassion on it, and taking it up, placed it in his bosom.

Who acts: Snake · What happens: have, take up, place, bosom · To what, where: compassion, bosom

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 (Snake), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	compassion	compassion	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
4	on	on	ADP	_	5 it	case
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 taking	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 taking	cc
8	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 had	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 taking	obj
10	up	up	ADP	_	8 taking	compound:prt
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 placed	punct
12	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 placed	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 bosom	case
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 bosom	nmod:poss
16	bosom	bosom	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 placed	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	have	past	Snake	compassion	compassion	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent compassion=Patient
2	take up	gerund	Snake not said here	compassion		vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	place	past	Snake not said here	compassion	Snake's bosom	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Destination
4	bosom		Snake			nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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