Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 32

He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms.

Who acts: contrary, Lapdog · What happens: try, jump, see, do, break, smash · To what, where: Lapdog, table, dishes, atoms

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 (contrary, Lapdog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 tried	nsubj
2	next	next	ADV	_	3 tried	advmod
3	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 jump	mark
5	jump	jump	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 tried	xcomp
6	about	about	ADP	_	8 master	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 master	nmod:poss
8	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 jump	obl
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 seen	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 seen	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 seen	aux
12	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 jump	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lapdog	det
14	Lapdog	lapdog	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seen	obj
15	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 Lapdog	acl:relcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 broke	punct
17	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 broke	cc
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 broke	nsubj
19	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 tried	parataxis
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 table	det
21	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 broke	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 smashed	cc
23	smashed	smash	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 broke	conj
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	26 dishes	det:predet
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 dishes	det
26	dishes	dish	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 smashed	obj
27	upon	upon	ADP	_	28 it	case
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 smashed	obl
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 atoms	case
30	atoms	atom	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 smashed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	try	past	contrary			next property	vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	jump not said to happen	to-infinitive	contrary not said here			about contrary's master	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about master=Trajectory
3	see	past · perfect	contrary	the Lapdog			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer lapdog=Stimulus
4	do	present	the Lapdog not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	break	past	contrary	the table			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer table=Patient
6	smash	past	contrary not said here	all dishes	atoms	upon master	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent dish=Theme to atom=Destination

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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