Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 34
As long as the war lasted, he looked upon him as his fellow-helper in all emergencies and fed him carefully with hay and corn.
Who acts: war, SOLDIER · What happens: last, look, feed · To what, where: SOLDIER
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 (war, SOLDIER), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 looked | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 lasted | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 war | det |
| 5 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lasted | nsubj |
| 6 | lasted | last | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 lasted | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | nsubj |
| 9 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 looked | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADP | _ | 16 helper | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 helper | nmod:poss |
| 14 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 helper | amod |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 fellow | punct |
| 16 | helper | helper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 looked | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 emergencies | case |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 emergencies | det |
| 19 | emergencies | emergency | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 helper | nmod |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 fed | cc |
| 21 | fed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 looked | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 fed | obj |
| 23 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 21 fed | advmod |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 hay | case |
| 25 | hay | hay | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 fed | obl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 corn | cc |
| 27 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 hay | conj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 looked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | last | past | the war | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | look | past | SOLDIER | upon Monkey; as SOLDIER's fellow helper in all emergencies; long property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | feed | past | SOLDIER not said here | SOLDIER | with hay and corn; carefully property | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient |
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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