Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 84
A FOX caught in a trap escaped, but in so doing lost his tail.
Who acts: FOX · What happens: catch, escape, lose · To what, where: trap, tail
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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 FOX | det |
| 2 | FOX | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 trap | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 trap | det |
| 6 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 7 | escaped | escape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 trap | acl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 10 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 13 lost | mark |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 lost | advmod |
| 12 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 lost | aux:pass |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 tail | nmod:poss |
| 15 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lost | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | a FOX | a trap | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | escape | participle | a trap not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | lose | gerund · do-support | a FOX not said here | Fox's tail | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: tail=Eventuality |
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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