Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 137
The Snake was quickly revived by the warmth, and resuming its natural instincts, bit its benefactor, inflicting on him a mortal wound.
Who acts: warmth · What happens: revive, resume, bite, inflict · To what, where: Snake, natural instincts, benefactor, mortal wound
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 (warmth), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Snake | det |
| 2 | Snake | snake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 revived | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 revived | aux:pass |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 revived | advmod |
| 5 | revived | revive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 warmth | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 warmth | det |
| 8 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 revived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 bit | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 bit | cc |
| 11 | resuming | resume | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 bit | advcl |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 instincts | nmod:poss |
| 13 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 instincts | amod |
| 14 | instincts | instinct | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 resuming | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 resuming | punct |
| 16 | bit | bite | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 revived | conj |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 18 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bit | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 inflicting | punct |
| 20 | inflicting | inflict | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 bit | advcl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 him | case |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 inflicting | obl |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 wound | det |
| 24 | mortal | mortal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wound | amod |
| 25 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 inflicting | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 revived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | revive | past · passive | the warmth | the Snake | quickly property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | resume | gerund | warmth's natural instincts | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent instinct=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | bite | past | the warmth not said here | warmth's benefactor | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefactor=Patient | ||||
| 4 | inflict | gerund | the warmth not said here | a mortal wound | on Snake | tree rules |
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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