Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 128

At this moment she tossed her head in unison with her thoughts, when down fell the milk pail to the ground, and all her imaginary schemes perished in a moment.

Who acts: poultry · What happens: toss, fall, perish, think, scheme · To what, where: head, unison, milk pail, imaginary schemes

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poultry), 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	_	3 moment	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 moment	det
3	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tossed	obl
4	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 tossed	nsubj
5	tossed	toss	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 head	nmod:poss
7	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tossed	obj
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 unison	case
9	unison	unison	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tossed	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 thoughts	case
11	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 thoughts	nmod:poss
12	thoughts	thought	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 unison	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fell	punct
14	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 fell	advmod
15	down	down	ADV	_	16 fell	advmod
16	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 thoughts	acl:relcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pail	det
18	milk	milk	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 pail	compound
19	pail	pail	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obj
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 ground	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 ground	det
22	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fell	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 schemes	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 schemes	cc
25	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	28 schemes	det:predet
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 schemes	nmod:poss
27	imaginary	imaginary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 schemes	amod
28	schemes	scheme	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 tossed	obl
29	perished	perish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 schemes	acl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 moment	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 moment	det
32	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 perished	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tossed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	toss	past	poultry	poultry's head	unison with poultry's thoughts	moment	poultry's imaginary schemes obl	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent head=Theme in unison=Destination
2	fall	past		the milk pail			to the ground result; down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient pail=Extent to ground=Result
3	perish	participle		poultry's imaginary schemes not said here		moment		vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
4	think		poultry					nom thought «cognition transitive»: poss=agent
5	scheme		poultry					nom scheme «cognition transitive»: poss=agent

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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