Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 121
The Frog, being still fastened to the leg of the Mouse, was also carried off a prisoner, and was eaten by the Hawk.
Who acts: Hawk · What happens: fasten, carry off, eat · To what, where: Frog
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 (Hawk), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Frog | det |
| 2 | Frog | Frog | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 fastened | punct |
| 4 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 fastened | aux:pass |
| 5 | still | still | ADV | _ | 6 fastened | advmod |
| 6 | fastened | fasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Frog | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 leg | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 leg | det |
| 9 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fastened | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Mouse | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Mouse | det |
| 12 | Mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 leg | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Frog | punct |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 carried | aux:pass |
| 15 | also | also | ADV | _ | 16 carried | advmod |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 17 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 carried | compound:prt |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 prisoner | det |
| 19 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 eaten | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eaten | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 eaten | aux:pass |
| 23 | eaten | eat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 carried | conj |
| 24 | by | by | ADP | _ | 26 Hawk | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Hawk | det |
| 26 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 eaten | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fasten | gerund · passive | the Frog not said here | still | to the leg of the Mouse | vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle PP»: to leg=Co-Patient | |||
| 2 | carry off | past · passive | the Frog | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary prisoner=Value | |||||
| 3 | eat | past · passive | the Hawk | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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