Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 137
Perceiving their simplicity, he cast down a huge log into the lake.
Who acts: King · What happens: perceive, cast down · To what, where: simplicity, huge log, lake
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 (King), 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 | Perceiving | perceive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 cast | advcl |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 simplicity | nmod:poss |
| 3 | simplicity | simplicity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Perceiving | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Perceiving | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 cast | nsubj |
| 6 | cast | cast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 cast | compound:prt |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 log | det |
| 9 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 log | amod |
| 10 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cast | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 lake | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 lake | det |
| 13 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 cast | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perceive | gerund | King not said here | Frogs's simplicity | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer simplicity=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | cast down | past | King | a huge log | the lake | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent log=Material into lake=Product |
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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