Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 97

She came close to him, and he quickly seized her ear with his teeth and bit it off.

Who acts: Mother, Youth · What happens: come, seize, bite off · To what, where: ear

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 (Mother, Youth), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 came	nsubj
2	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 came	advmod
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 him	case
5	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 close	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 seized	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 seized	cc
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 seized	nsubj
9	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	10 seized	advmod
10	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 ear	nmod:poss
12	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seized	obj
13	with	with	ADP	_	15 teeth	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 teeth	nmod:poss
15	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 seized	obl
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 bit	cc
17	bit	bite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 came	conj
18	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 bit	obj
19	off	off	ADP	_	17 bit	compound:prt
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come	past	Mother		close property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	seize	past	Youth	Mother's ear	with Youth's teeth; quickly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3	bite off	past	Mother not said here	ear		vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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