Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 52

They killed several of them, when one of the Frogs, lifting his head out of the water, cried out: “Pray stop, my boys: what is sport to you, is death to us.”

Who acts: Boy, boys · What happens: kill, lift, cry out, pray, be · To what, where: several, head, water, stop, sport, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Boy, boys), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 killed	nsubj
2	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	several	several	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 killed	obj
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 them	case
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 several	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 several	conj
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Frogs	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Frogs	det
11	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	Number=Plur	8 one	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lifting	punct
13	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 killed	advcl
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 head	nmod:poss
15	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lifting	obj
16	out	out	ADP	_	19 water	case
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 water	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 water	det
19	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lifting	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 cried	punct
21	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	conj
22	out	out	ADP	_	21 cried	compound:prt
23	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 Pray	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 Pray	punct
25	Pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 killed	parataxis
26	stop	stop	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Pray	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 boys	punct
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 boys	nmod:poss
29	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 Pray	obl
30	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 sport	punct
31	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	33 sport	nsubj
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 sport	cop
33	sport	sport	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 boys	nmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	35 you	case
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	33 sport	nmod
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 death	punct
37	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 death	cop
38	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Pray	obl
39	to	to	ADP	_	40 us	case
40	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 death	nmod
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 Pray	punct
42	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 killed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	kill	past	Boy	several of Frogs				tree rules
2	lift	gerund	Boy not said here	liar's head		the water		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme out water=Destination
3	cry out speech: express	past	Boy not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	pray in a quote	infinitive		stop			my boys obl	tree rules
5	is a in a quote	present	my boys	sport	you			tree rules
6	is a in a quote	present		death	us			tree rules

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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