Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 72
When the thaw set in, he led them all out to feed, and the Wild Goats scampered away as fast as they could to the mountains.
Who acts: thaw, Wild Goats · What happens: set in, lead, feed, scamper away · To what, where: strangers
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 (thaw, Wild Goats), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 thaw | det |
| 3 | thaw | thaw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 led | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | nsubj |
| 8 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | parataxis |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 led | obj |
| 10 | all | all | ADV | _ | 11 out | advmod |
| 11 | out | out | ADV | _ | 8 led | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 feed | mark |
| 13 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 out | advcl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 scampered | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 scampered | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Goats | det |
| 17 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 Goats | compound |
| 18 | Goats | Goat | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 scampered | nsubj |
| 19 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 led | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 scampered | advmod |
| 21 | as | as | ADV | _ | 22 fast | advmod |
| 22 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 scampered | advmod |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 could | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 could | nsubj |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 fast | advcl |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 mountains | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 mountains | det |
| 28 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 could | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set in | participle | the thaw | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | lead | past | thaw | strangers = stranger | out property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | feed | to-infinitive | thaw not said here | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | scamper away | participle | the Wild Goats | away, fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=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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