Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 125

He managed by a skillful handling of his net to retain all the large fish and to draw them to the shore; but he could not prevent the smaller fish from falling back through the meshes of the net into the sea.

Who acts: acquaintance · What happens: manage, retain, draw, not prevent, fall back, handle · To what, where: large fish, Nets, shore, smaller fish, meshes, net

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 managed	nsubj
2	managed	manage	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	by	by	ADP	_	6 handling	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 handling	det
5	skillful	skillful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 handling	amod
6	handling	handling	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 managed	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 net	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 net	nmod:poss
9	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 handling	nmod
10	to	to	PART	_	11 retain	mark
11	retain	retain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 managed	xcomp
12	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 fish	det:predet
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fish	det
14	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 fish	amod
15	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 retain	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 draw	cc
17	to	to	PART	_	18 draw	mark
18	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 retain	conj
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 draw	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 shore	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 shore	det
22	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 draw	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 managed	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 prevent	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 prevent	nsubj
26	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 prevent	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 prevent	advmod
28	prevent	prevent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 managed	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 fish	det
30	smaller	small	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	31 fish	amod
31	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 prevent	obj
32	from	from	SCONJ	_	33 falling	mark
33	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 prevent	advcl
34	back	back	ADV	_	33 falling	advmod
35	through	through	ADP	_	37 meshes	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 meshes	det
37	meshes	mesh	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 falling	obl
38	of	of	ADP	_	40 net	case
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 net	det
40	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 meshes	nmod
41	into	into	ADP	_	43 sea	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 sea	det
43	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 falling	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 managed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	manage	past	acquaintance			by a skillful handling of acquaintance's net	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	retain	to-infinitive	acquaintance not said here	all large fish			tree rules
3	draw	to-infinitive	acquaintance not said here	Nets = net	the shore		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to shore=Destination
4	not prevent	could	acquaintance	the smaller fish			vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer fish=Theme
5	fall back	gerund	acquaintance not said here		the meshes of the net	into the sea	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through mesh=Initial_Location into sea=Destination
6	handle			acquaintance's net			nom handling «act transitive»: of=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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