Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 7
With them he trapped a Stork that had fractured his leg in the net and was earnestly beseeching the Farmer to spare his life.
Who acts: Stork · What happens: trap, fracture, be, beseech, spare · To what, where: Farmer, leg, net, life
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 (Stork), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 4 trapped | mark |
| 2 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trapped | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 trapped | nsubj |
| 4 | trapped | trap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Stork | det |
| 6 | Stork | stork | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 trapped | obj |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 fractured | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 fractured | aux |
| 9 | fractured | fracture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 Stork | acl:relcl |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 leg | nmod:poss |
| 11 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fractured | obj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 net | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 net | det |
| 14 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fractured | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 earnestly | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 earnestly | cop |
| 17 | earnestly | earnestly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 trapped | conj |
| 18 | beseeching | beseech | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 earnestly | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Farmer | det |
| 20 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 beseeching | obj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 spare | mark |
| 22 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 beseeching | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 spare | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 trapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | trap | participle · passive | Farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fracture | past · perfect | a Stork | Stork's leg | the net | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | earnestly property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | beseech | gerund | the Farmer | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | spare | to-infinitive | Stork's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=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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