Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 77

The other, seeing that he must be attacked, fell flat on the ground, and when the Bear came up and felt him with his snout, and smelt him all over, he held his breath, and feigned the appearance of death as much as he could.

Who acts: Bear, One · What happens: see, attack, fall, come up, feel, smelt · To what, where: One, ground, breath, appearance

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 (Bear, One), 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 other	det
2	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 seeing	punct
4	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 other	advcl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	9 attacked	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 attacked	nsubj:pass
7	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 attacked	aux
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 attacked	aux:pass
9	attacked	attack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 seeing	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 fell	punct
11	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 attacked	conj
12	flat	flat	ADV	_	11 fell	advmod
13	on	on	ADP	_	15 ground	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ground	det
15	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fell	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 felt	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
18	when	when	SCONJ	_	21 came	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Bear	det
20	Bear	bear	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 felt	advcl
22	up	up	ADV	_	21 came	advmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 felt	cc
24	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 fell	conj
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 felt	obj
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 snout	case
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 snout	nmod:poss
28	snout	snout	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 felt	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 smelt	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 smelt	cc
31	smelt	smelt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 felt	parataxis
32	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 smelt	obj
33	all	all	ADV	_	34 over	advmod
34	over	over	ADV	_	31 smelt	advmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 held	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 held	nsubj
37	held	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 smelt	conj
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 breath	nmod:poss
39	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 held	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 feigned	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 feigned	cc
42	feigned	feign	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 smelt	conj
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 appearance	det
44	appearance	appearance	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 feigned	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 death	case
46	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 appearance	nmod
47	as	as	ADV	_	48 much	advmod
48	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 feigned	obj
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	51 could	mark
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	51 could	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 much	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 other	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	attack	must · passive		One			vn attack-60.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	fall	past			the ground	flat property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on ground=Location
4	come up	past	the Bear				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	feel	past		One		with One's snout	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	smelt	past		One		over property	tree rules
7	hold	past	One	One's breath			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme
8	feign	past		the appearance of death			tree rules

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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