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

“He is dead, dear Mother; for just now a very huge beast with four great feet came to the pool and crushed him to death with his cloven heel.”

Who acts: drinking, huge beast · What happens: be, come, crush · To what, where: pool, drinking

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 (drinking, huge beast), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
2	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dead	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	cop
4	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 Mother	punct
6	dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 Mother	amod
7	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dead	conj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	20 came	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	20 came	case
10	just	just	ADV	_	20 came	advmod
11	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	20 came	advmod
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 beast	det
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 huge	advmod
14	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 beast	amod
15	beast	beast	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	nsubj
16	with	with	ADP	_	19 feet	case
17	four	four	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 feet	nummod
18	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 feet	amod
19	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 beast	nmod
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dead	parataxis
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 pool	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pool	det
23	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 crushed	cc
25	crushed	crush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 came	conj
26	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 crushed	obj
27	to	to	ADP	_	28 death	case
28	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crushed	obl
29	with	with	ADP	_	32 heel	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 heel	nmod:poss
31	cloven	cloven	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 heel	amod
32	heel	heel	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 crushed	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 dead	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	drinking				dead property	tree rules
2	come in a quote	past	a huge beast with four great feet		the pool	now		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to pool=Initial_Location
3	crush in a quote	past	a huge beast with four great feet not said here	drinking			to death result; with drinking's cloven heel	vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.result PP.instrument»: agent=Agent he=Patient to death=Result with heel=Instrument

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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