Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 35
A BAT who fell upon the ground and was caught by a Weasel pleaded to be spared his life.
Who acts: BAT, Weasel · What happens: fall, catch, plead, spare · To what, where: ground, life
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 (BAT, Weasel), 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 BAT | det |
| 2 | BAT | bat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 pleaded | nsubj |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 BAT | acl:relcl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 caught | cc |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 caught | aux:pass |
| 10 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 fell | conj |
| 11 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 Weasel | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Weasel | det |
| 13 | Weasel | Weasel | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 caught | obl |
| 14 | pleaded | plead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 spared | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 spared | aux:pass |
| 17 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 pleaded | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 spared | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 pleaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a BAT | the ground | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location | ||||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | a Weasel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | plead speech: request | past | a BAT | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | spare | to-infinitive · passive | a BAT not said here | Grasshopper's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: life=Asset |
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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