Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 94

He thus lost both: that which he grasped at in the water, because it was a shadow; and his own, because the stream swept it away.

Who acts: Dog, that, water, stream · What happens: lose, grasp, be, sweep away · To what, where: both, water, shadow

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, that, water, stream), 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 lost	nsubj
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	3 lost	advmod
3	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lost	obj
5	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 grasped	punct
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	9 grasped	nsubj
7	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 grasped	nsubj
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 grasped	nsubj
9	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
10	at	at	ADP	_	13 water	case
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 water	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 water	det
13	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grasped	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 shadow	punct
15	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 shadow	mark
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 shadow	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 shadow	cop
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 shadow	det
19	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 grasped	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 own	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 own	cc
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 own	nmod:poss
23	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 lost	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 swept	punct
25	because	because	SCONJ	_	28 swept	mark
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 stream	det
27	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 swept	nsubj
28	swept	sweep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lost	conj
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 swept	obj
30	away	away	ADV	_	28 swept	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lost	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lose	past	Dog	both		Dog's own obl; thus property	vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent both=Eventuality
2	grasp	past	that		the water		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	water	a shadow			tree rules
4	sweep away	past	the stream	water		away property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Trajectory

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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