Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 38
Shortly afterwards the Bat again fell to the ground and was caught by another Weasel, whom he likewise entreated not to eat him.
Who acts: Bat, Weasel, Grasshopper · What happens: fall, catch, entreat, not eat · To what, where: Weasel, Grasshopper
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, Grasshopper), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Bat | det |
| 4 | Bat | Bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | nsubj |
| 5 | again | again | ADV | _ | 6 fell | advmod |
| 6 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 ground | det |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fell | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caught | cc |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 caught | aux:pass |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fell | conj |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Weasel | case |
| 14 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 Weasel | det |
| 15 | Weasel | weasel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 entreated | punct |
| 17 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 20 entreated | obj |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 entreated | nsubj |
| 19 | likewise | likewise | ADV | _ | 20 entreated | advmod |
| 20 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Weasel | acl:relcl |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 eat | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 eat | mark |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 entreated | xcomp |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | the Bat | again | to the ground; afterwards property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | |||
| 2 | catch | past · passive | another Weasel | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | entreat | past | Grasshopper | another Weasel | likewise property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent whom=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 4 | not eat | to-infinitive | Grasshopper not said here | Grasshopper | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
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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