Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 138

The Frogs were terrified at the splash occasioned by its fall and hid themselves in the depths of the pool.

Who acts: Frogs · What happens: be, occasion, hide · To what, where: splash, Frogs, depths

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 (Frogs), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Frogs	det
2	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 terrified	nsubj
3	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	cop
4	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	at	at	ADP	_	7 splash	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 splash	det
7	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 terrified	obl
8	occasioned	occasion	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 splash	acl
9	by	by	ADP	_	11 fall	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 fall	nmod:poss
11	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 occasioned	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 hid	cc
13	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 terrified	conj
14	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	13 hid	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 depths	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 depths	det
17	depths	depth	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 hid	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 pool	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 pool	det
20	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 depths	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 terrified	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Frogs		the splash	terrified property	tree rules
2	occasion	participle		the splash not said here		by splash's fall	tree rules
3	hide	past	the Frogs not said here	Frogs = frog	the depths of the pool		vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient in depth=Location

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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