Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 119

This agreement being made, the Physician, time after time, applied his salve to her eyes, and on every visit took something away, stealing all her property little by little.

Who acts: agreement · What happens: make, apply, take away, steal · To what, where: agreement, salve, something, visit, property

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (agreement), 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	This	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 agreement	det
2	agreement	agreement	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 applied	nsubj
3	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	aux:pass
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 agreement	acl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Physician	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Physician	det
7	Physician	physician	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 agreement	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 time	punct
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 agreement	conj
10	after	after	ADP	_	11 time	case
11	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 time	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 agreement	punct
13	applied	apply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 salve	nmod:poss
15	salve	salve	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 applied	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 eyes	case
17	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 eyes	nmod:poss
18	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 applied	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 took	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 took	cc
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 visit	case
22	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	23 visit	det
23	visit	visit	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 took	obl
24	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 applied	conj
25	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	24 took	obj
26	away	away	ADV	_	24 took	advmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 stealing	punct
28	stealing	steal	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 took	advcl
29	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 property	det:predet
30	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 property	nmod:poss
31	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 stealing	obj
32	little	little	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 stealing	advmod
33	by	by	ADP	_	34 little	case
34	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 stealing	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 applied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	make	gerund · passive		this agreement and the Physician and time after time not said here			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»
2	apply	past	this agreement and the Physician and time after time	presence's salve		to infirmity's eyes	vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent salve=Theme
3	take away	past	this agreement and the Physician and time after time not said here	something	every visit	away property	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Theme
4	steal	gerund	this agreement and the Physician and time after time not said here	infirmity's property		by little; little property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location property=Theme

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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