Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 33
He then attempted to lick his master, and jumped upon his back.
Who acts: contrary · What happens: attempt, lick, jump · To what, where: master, back
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), 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 attempted | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 attempted | advmod |
| 3 | attempted | attempt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 lick | mark |
| 5 | lick | lick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 attempted | xcomp |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 master | nmod:poss |
| 7 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 lick | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jumped | cc |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 attempted | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 13 back | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 back | nmod:poss |
| 13 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 attempted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | attempt | past | contrary | then | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lick not said to happen | to-infinitive | contrary not said here | contrary's master | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent master=Source | ||||
| 3 | jump | past | contrary not said here | contrary's back | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon back=Trajectory |
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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