Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 95
At last he was caught in the very act, and having his hands bound behind him, was led away to the place of public execution.
Who acts: last · What happens: catch, have, lead away · To what, where: Youth, act, hands, last
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 (last), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 last | case |
| 2 | last | last | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 caught | aux:pass |
| 5 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 last | acl:relcl |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 act | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 act | det |
| 8 | very | very | ADV | _ | 9 act | advmod |
| 9 | act | act | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 caught | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 having | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 having | cc |
| 12 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 caught | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hands | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hands | hand | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 having | obj |
| 15 | bound | bound | ADV | _ | 12 having | advmod |
| 16 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 17 him | case |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 having | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 last | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 led | aux:pass |
| 20 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 led | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 place | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 place | det |
| 24 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 led | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 execution | case |
| 26 | public | public | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 execution | amod |
| 27 | execution | execution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 place | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past · passive | last not said here | Youth | the act | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | last not said here | Youth's hands | behind Youth; bound property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Patient | |||
| 3 | lead away | past · passive | last | to the place of public execution; away property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: to place=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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