Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 33

The Goat, mindful only of his thirst, thoughtlessly jumped down, but just as he drank, the Fox informed him of the difficulty they were both in and suggested a scheme for their common escape.

Who acts: Goat, Fox, words · What happens: jump down, drink, inform, be, suggest, thirst · To what, where: Goat, difficulty, scheme

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 (Goat, Fox, words), 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 Goat	det
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 jumped	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 mindful	punct
4	mindful	mindful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Goat	amod
5	only	only	ADV	_	8 thirst	advmod
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 thirst	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 thirst	nmod:poss
8	thirst	thirst	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 mindful	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 jumped	punct
10	thoughtlessly	thoughtlessly	ADV	_	11 jumped	advmod
11	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 jumped	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 drank	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	18 drank	cc
15	just	just	ADV	_	18 drank	advmod
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 drank	mark
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 drank	nsubj
18	drank	drink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 jumped	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 informed	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Fox	det
21	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 informed	nsubj
22	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 jumped	conj
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 informed	iobj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 difficulty	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 difficulty	det
26	difficulty	difficulty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 informed	obl
27	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 in	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 in	cop
29	both	both	ADV	_	30 in	advmod
30	in	in	ADV	_	26 difficulty	acl:relcl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 suggested	cc
32	suggested	suggest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 jumped	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 scheme	det
34	scheme	scheme	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 suggested	obj
35	for	for	ADP	_	38 escape	case
36	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 escape	nmod:poss
37	common	common	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 escape	amod
38	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 suggested	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	jump down	past	the Goat			thoughtlessly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	drink	past	Goat				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	inform speech: other	past	the Fox		Goat	of the difficulty	vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of difficulty=Topic
4	is	past	words = word	the difficulty not said here		both, in property	tree rules
5	suggest speech: suggest	past	the Goat not said here	a scheme		for words's common escape	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent scheme=Topic
6	thirst		Goat				nom thirst «state intransitive»: poss=agent
7	escape		words = word				nom escape «act 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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