Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 117
After this, he gradually led him towards the pool in which he lived, until reaching the very brink, he suddenly jumped in, dragging the Mouse with him.
Who acts: acquaintance · What happens: lead, live, reach, jump in, drag · To what, where: man, pool, brink, Mouse
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (acquaintance), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 2 this | case |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 led | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 this | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 led | nsubj |
| 5 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 6 led | advmod |
| 6 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 led | obj |
| 8 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 10 pool | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 pool | det |
| 10 | pool | pool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 led | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 lived | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 lived | nsubj |
| 14 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 pool | acl:relcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 reaching | punct |
| 16 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 17 reaching | mark |
| 17 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 led | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 brink | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 brink | advmod |
| 20 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 reaching | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 jumped | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 jumped | nsubj |
| 23 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 24 jumped | advmod |
| 24 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 led | conj |
| 25 | in | in | ADV | _ | 24 jumped | compound:prt |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 dragging | punct |
| 27 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 jumped | advcl |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 Mouse | det |
| 29 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 dragging | obj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 him | case |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 dragging | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | acquaintance | man | the pool | after this | gradually property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme towards pool=Destination | |
| 2 | live | past | acquaintance | the pool | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 3 | reach | gerund | acquaintance not said here | the brink | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent brink=Theme | ||||
| 4 | jump in | past | acquaintance | suddenly property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drag | gerund | acquaintance not said here | the Mouse | with acquaintance | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mouse=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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