Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 36
Steadying himself with the Goat’s horns, he safely reached the mouth of the well and made off as fast as he could.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: steady, reach, make off · To what, where: Fox, mouth
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 (Fox), 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 | Steadying | steady | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 reached | advcl |
| 2 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 1 Steadying | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 horns | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Goat | det |
| 5 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 horns | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Goat | case |
| 7 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Steadying | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Steadying | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 reached | nsubj |
| 10 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 11 reached | advmod |
| 11 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 mouth | det |
| 13 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 reached | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 well | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 well | det |
| 16 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 mouth | nmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 made | cc |
| 18 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 reached | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 made | compound:prt |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 fast | advmod |
| 21 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 made | advmod |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 could | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 could | nsubj |
| 24 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fast | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steady | gerund | Fox not said here | Fox | with the Goat's horns | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent himself=Patient with horn=Instrument | |||
| 2 | reach | past | Fox | the mouth of the well | safely property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent mouth=Theme | |||
| 3 | make off | participle | Fox not said here | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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