Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 67

The beasts expressed their sorrow, and came one by one to his den, where the Lion devoured them.

Who acts: beasts, Lion · What happens: express, come, devour, sorrow · To what, where: sorrow, one, beasts

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 (beasts, Lion), 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 beasts	det
2	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 expressed	nsubj
3	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 sorrow	nmod:poss
5	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 expressed	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 came	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 came	cc
8	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 expressed	parataxis
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 came	obj
10	by	by	ADP	_	11 one	case
11	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 one	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 den	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 den	nmod:poss
14	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 devoured	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 devoured	advmod
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Lion	det
18	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 devoured	nsubj
19	devoured	devour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 came	conj
20	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 devoured	obj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 expressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	express	past	the beasts	beasts's sorrow		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sorrow=Theme
2	come	past		one	by one to Lion's den	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location one=Theme
3	devour	past	the Lion	beasts = beast		vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient
4	sorrow		beasts = beast			nom sorrow «feeling 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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