Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 4

The next day, when it came out of its hole for food, he took up his axe, but by swinging too hastily, missed its head and cut off only the end of its tail.

Who acts: loss, Snake · What happens: come out, take up, swing, miss, cut off · To what, where: hole, axe, head, end

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 (loss, Snake), 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	3 day	det
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl:unmarked
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 day	punct
5	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	7 came	advmod
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 came	nsubj
7	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	out	out	ADP	_	11 hole	case
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 hole	case
10	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hole	nmod:poss
11	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 came	obl
12	for	for	ADP	_	13 food	case
13	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hole	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 took	punct
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 took	nsubj
16	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	conj
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 took	compound:prt
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 axe	nmod:poss
19	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 took	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 missed	punct
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 missed	cc
22	by	by	SCONJ	_	23 swinging	mark
23	swinging	swing	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 missed	advcl
24	too	too	ADV	_	25 hastily	advmod
25	hastily	hastily	ADV	_	23 swinging	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 swinging	punct
27	missed	miss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 came	parataxis
28	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 missed	obj
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 cut	cc
31	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 missed	conj
32	off	off	ADP	_	31 cut	compound:prt
33	only	only	ADV	_	35 end	advmod
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 end	det
35	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cut	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 tail	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 tail	nmod:poss
38	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 end	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come out	past	loss	loss's hole for food	day		vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient hole=Result
2	take up	past	Snake	Snake's axe			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent axe=Theme
3	swing	gerund				hastily property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	miss	past		loss's head			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer head=Stimulus
5	cut off	participle		the end of loss's tail			vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=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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