Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 2

AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs and crushed one of them to death.

Who acts: AN OX drinking · What happens: crush · To what, where: one

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 (AN OX drinking), 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	AN	an	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 drinking	amod
2	OX	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinking	compound
3	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crushed	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	7 trod	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 trod	det
6	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trod	compound
7	trod	trod	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 drinking	nmod
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 brood	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 brood	det
10	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 trod	nmod
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 frogs	case
12	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 frogs	amod
13	frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 brood	nmod
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 crushed	cc
15	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 crushed	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 them	case
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 one	nmod
19	to	to	ADP	_	20 death	case
20	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 crushed	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 crushed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	crush	past	AN OX drinking at a pool trod on a brood of young frogs	one of Ox				to death result	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent one=Patient to death=Result

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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