Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 93
He immediately let go of his own, and fiercely attacked the other Dog to get his larger piece from him.
Who acts: Dog · What happens: let, go, attack, get · To what, where: other Dog, larger piece
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), 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 let | nsubj |
| 2 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 3 let | advmod |
| 3 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 let | xcomp |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 own | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 own | nmod:poss |
| 7 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 attacked | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 attacked | cc |
| 10 | fiercely | fiercely | ADV | _ | 11 attacked | advmod |
| 11 | attacked | attack | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 let | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Dog | det |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Dog | amod |
| 14 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 attacked | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 get | mark |
| 16 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 attacked | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 piece | nmod:poss |
| 18 | larger | large | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 19 piece | amod |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 get | obj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 get | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | Dog | immediately property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | go | infinitive | Dog not said here | of Dog's own | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of own=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | attack | past | Dog not said here | the other Dog | fiercely property | vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Patient | |||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | Dog not said here | Dog's larger piece | from Dog | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from he=Source |
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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