Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 84
He had caught a goodly number, when he saw a Scorpion, and mistaking him for a locust, reached out his hand to take him.
Who acts: BOY · What happens: catch, see, mistake, reach out, take · To what, where: BOY, Scorpion, hand
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 (BOY), 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 | 3 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | aux |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 number | det |
| 5 | goodly | goodly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 number | amod |
| 6 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 saw | advmod |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 caught | parataxis |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 Scorpion | det |
| 12 | Scorpion | Scorpion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reached | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 reached | cc |
| 15 | mistaking | mistake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 reached | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 mistaking | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 locust | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 locust | det |
| 19 | locust | locust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 mistaking | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 mistaking | punct |
| 21 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 reached | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 hand | nmod:poss |
| 24 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 reached | obj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 take | mark |
| 26 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 reached | advcl |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 take | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · perfect · passive | BOY | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary number=Theme | |||||
| 2 | see | past | BOY | a Scorpion | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scorpion=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | mistake | gerund | BOY | for a locust | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | reach out | past | BOY not said here | BOY's hand | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent hand=Theme | ||||
| 5 | take | to-infinitive | BOY not said here | BOY | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination |
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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