Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 41

The whole Body quickly became debilitated, and the hands, feet, mouth, and eyes, when too late, repented of their folly.

Who acts: whole Body, hands · What happens: become, debilitate, mouth, repent

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 (whole Body, hands), 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	3 Body	det
2	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Body	amod
3	Body	body	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	nsubj
4	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	5 became	advmod
5	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	debilitated	debilitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 became	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 mouth	cc
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 hands	det
10	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 mouth	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 feet	punct
12	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 hands	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 mouth	punct
14	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 became	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 late	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 late	cc
17	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 late	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 late	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 late	advmod
20	too	too	ADV	_	21 late	advmod
21	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 became	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 repented	punct
23	repented	repent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 late	conj
24	of	of	ADP	_	26 folly	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 folly	nmod:poss
26	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 repented	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	become	past	the whole Body	quickly property	tree rules
2	debilitate	participle	the whole Body not said here		tree rules
3	mouth		the hands and feet		tree rules
4	repent	participle	the whole Body not said here	of eyes's folly	tree rules

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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