Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 81

Thus it came to pass that between them both he very soon found that he had not a hair left on his head.

Who acts: admirer, MAN · What happens: come, pass, find, have, leave · To what, where: that, hair, head · 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 (admirer, MAN), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	PART	_	5 pass	mark
5	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 came	xcomp
6	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 pass	obj
7	between	between	ADP	_	8 them	case
8	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 pass	obl
9	both	both	DET	PronType=Tot	10 he	reparandum
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 them	conj
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 found	advmod
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	advcl
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 had	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 had	nsubj
16	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	ccomp
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 hair	advmod
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hair	det
19	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 had	obj
20	left	leave	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 hair	acl
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 head	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 left	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	admirer			thus property	tree rules
2	pass	to-infinitive	admirer not said here	that		between women = woman	vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent that=Theme between they=Destination
3	find	past	admirer not said here			soon property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	have	past	MAN	a hair			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hair=Patient
5	leave	participle		a hair not said here	MAN's head		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent on head=Location

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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