Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 92

A DOG, crossing a bridge over a stream with a piece of flesh in his mouth, saw his own shadow in the water and took it for that of another Dog, with a piece of meat double his own in size.

Who acts: DOG, piece · What happens: cross, see, take, double, shadow · To what, where: bridge, stream, own shadow, water, Shadow, own

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 (DOG, piece), 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 DOG	det
2	DOG	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 crossing	punct
4	crossing	cross	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 DOG	acl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bridge	det
6	bridge	bridge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	obj
7	over	over	ADP	_	9 stream	case
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 stream	det
9	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 piece	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 piece	det
12	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 crossing	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 flesh	case
14	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piece	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 mouth	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 mouth	nmod:poss
17	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 piece	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 DOG	punct
19	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 shadow	nmod:poss
21	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 shadow	amod
22	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 water	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 water	det
25	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 saw	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 took	cc
27	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 saw	conj
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 took	obj
29	for	for	ADP	_	30 that	case
30	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 took	obl
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 Dog	case
32	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	33 Dog	det
33	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 that	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 piece	punct
35	with	with	ADP	_	37 piece	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 piece	det
37	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 double	nsubj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 meat	case
39	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 piece	nmod
40	double	double	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 took	parataxis
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 own	nmod:poss
42	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 double	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 size	case
44	size	size	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 own	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	cross	gerund	a DOG not said here	a bridge	a stream	with a piece of flesh in Dog's mouth	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient
2	see	past	a DOG	Dog's own shadow	the water		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus
3	take	past	a DOG not said here	Shadow		for that	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Theme for that=Beneficiary
4	double	present	a piece of meat	Dog's own			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent own=Patient
5	shadow		Dog				nom shadow «state 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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