Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 143

Jupiter, displeased with all their complaints, sent a Heron, who preyed upon the Frogs day by day till there were none left to croak upon the lake.

Who acts: Jupiter, Heron, none, Frogs · What happens: displease, send, prey, be, leave, croak · To what, where: Jupiter, Heron

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 (Jupiter, Heron, none, 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	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sent	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 displeased	punct
3	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Jupiter	acl
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 complaints	case
5	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	7 complaints	det:predet
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 complaints	nmod:poss
7	complaints	complaint	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 displeased	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jupiter	punct
9	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Heron	det
11	Heron	Heron	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 sent	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 preyed	punct
13	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 preyed	nsubj
14	preyed	prey	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 Heron	acl:relcl
15	upon	upon	ADP	_	18 day	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 day	det
17	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 day	compound
18	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 preyed	obl
19	by	by	ADP	_	20 day	case
20	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 preyed	obl
21	till	till	SCONJ	_	23 were	mark
22	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	23 were	expl
23	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 preyed	conj
24	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	23 were	nsubj
25	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 none	acl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 croak	mark
27	croak	croak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 left	xcomp
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 lake	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 lake	det
30	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 croak	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	displease	participle		Jupiter not said here			with Frogs's complaints	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	send	past	Jupiter	a Heron				vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heron=Theme
3	prey	past	a Heron			day		tree rules
4	be	past	none		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	leave	participle						tree rules
6	croak	to-infinitive					upon the lake	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	complain		Frogs = frog					nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=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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