Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 22
A Fox, seeing this, longed to possess the meat himself, and by a wily stratagem succeeded.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: see, long, possess, succeed · To what, where: this, meat
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 (Fox), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 longed | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 seeing | punct |
| 4 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Fox | acl |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 seeing | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
| 7 | longed | long | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 possess | mark |
| 9 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 longed | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 meat | det |
| 11 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 possess | obj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 possess | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 succeeded | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 succeeded | cc |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 stratagem | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 stratagem | det |
| 17 | wily | wily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 stratagem | amod |
| 18 | stratagem | stratagem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 succeeded | obl |
| 19 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 longed | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 longed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | a Fox not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | long | past | a Fox | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | possess not said to happen | to-infinitive | a Fox not said here | the meat | Fisherman obl:unmarked | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot meat=Theme | |||
| 4 | succeed | past | a Fox not said here | by a wily stratagem | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=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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