Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 119
The unhappy Mouse was soon suffocated by the water, and his dead body floated about on the surface, tied to the foot of the Frog.
Who acts: water, dead body · What happens: suffocate, float, tie · To what, where: unhappy Mouse, surface
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 (water, dead body), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:516): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Mouse | det |
| 2 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Mouse | amod |
| 3 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suffocated | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suffocated | aux:pass |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 suffocated | advmod |
| 6 | suffocated | suffocate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 water | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 water | det |
| 9 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 suffocated | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 floated | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 floated | cc |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 body | nmod:poss |
| 13 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 body | amod |
| 14 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floated | nsubj |
| 15 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 suffocated | conj |
| 16 | about | about | ADV | _ | 15 floated | advmod |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 surface | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 surface | det |
| 19 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tied | punct |
| 21 | tied | tie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 floated | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 foot | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 foot | det |
| 24 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tied | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 Frog | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Frog | det |
| 27 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 foot | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 suffocated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suffocate | past · passive | the water | the unhappy Mouse | soon property | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | float | past | acquaintance's dead body | the surface | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on surface=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | tie | participle | acquaintance's dead body not said here | to the foot of the Frog | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient to foot=Co-Patient |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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