Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 88

Standing on a projecting rock, he played several tunes in the hope that the fish, attracted by his melody, would of their own accord dance into his net, which he had placed below.

Who acts: FISHERMAN, fish · What happens: stand, play, attract, place, dance · To what, where: projecting rock, several tunes, hope, fish, net

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 (FISHERMAN, fish), 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	Standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 played	advcl
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 rock	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 rock	det
4	projecting	projecting	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 rock	compound
5	rock	rock	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Standing	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Standing	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 played	nsubj
8	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 tunes	amod
10	tunes	tune	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 played	obj
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 hope	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hope	det
13	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 played	obl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 fish	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 fish	det
16	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hope	conj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 attracted	punct
18	attracted	attract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 fish	acl
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 melody	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 melody	nmod:poss
21	melody	melody	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 attracted	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 dance	punct
23	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 dance	aux
24	of	of	ADP	_	28 dance	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 dance	nmod:poss
26	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dance	amod
27	accord	accord	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dance	compound
28	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fish	conj
29	into	into	ADP	_	31 net	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 net	nmod:poss
31	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 played	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 placed	punct
33	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	36 placed	nsubj:pass
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 placed	nsubj
35	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 placed	aux
36	placed	place	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	31 net	acl:relcl
37	below	below	ADV	_	36 placed	advmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 played	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stand	gerund	FISHERMAN not said here		a projecting rock		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location
2	play	past	FISHERMAN	several tunes	the hope and the fish and fish's own accord dance	into FISHERMAN's net	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tune=Theme
3	attract	participle		the fish and fish's own accord dance not said here		by FISHERMAN's melody	vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	place	past · perfect · passive		FISHERMAN's net		below property	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme
5	dance		fish				nom dance «communication 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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