Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 131

He grasped as many as he could possibly hold, but when he tried to pull out his hand, he was prevented from doing so by the neck of the pitcher.

Who acts: Sheep · What happens: grasp, hold, try, pull out, prevent, do · To what, where: many, hand, Sheep

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Sheep), 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	2 grasped	nsubj
2	grasped	grasp	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 many	advmod
4	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 grasped	obj
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 hold	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 hold	nsubj
7	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 hold	aux
8	possibly	possibly	ADV	_	9 hold	advmod
9	hold	hold	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 many	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 prevented	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	23 prevented	cc
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	14 tried	advmod
13	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 tried	nsubj
14	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 prevented	advcl
15	to	to	PART	_	16 pull	mark
16	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 tried	xcomp
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 pull	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 pull	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 tried	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 prevented	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 prevented	aux:pass
23	prevented	prevent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 grasped	conj
24	from	from	SCONJ	_	25 doing	mark
25	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 prevented	advcl
26	so	so	ADV	_	25 doing	advmod
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 neck	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 neck	det
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 doing	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 pitcher	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 pitcher	det
32	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 neck	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 grasped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	grasp	past	Sheep	many		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer many=Stimulus
2	hold	could	Sheep		possibly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try	past	Sheep			vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	pull out not said to happen	to-infinitive	Sheep not said here	Sheep's hand		tree rules
5	prevent	past · passive		Sheep		vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	do	gerund			by the neck of the pitcher	vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=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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