Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 39

A STAG, roundly chased by the hounds and blinded by fear to the danger he was running into, took shelter in a farmyard and hid himself in a shed among the oxen.

Who acts: Stag · What happens: chase, blind, run, take, hide · To what, where: STAG, danger, shelter, farmyard, shed

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 (Stag), 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 STAG	det
2	STAG	stag	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 chased	punct
4	roundly	roundly	ADV	_	5 chased	advmod
5	chased	chase	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 STAG	acl
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 hounds	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hounds	det
8	hounds	hound	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 chased	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 blinded	cc
10	blinded	blind	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 chased	conj
11	by	by	ADP	_	12 fear	case
12	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 blinded	obl
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 danger	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 danger	det
15	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fear	nmod
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 running	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 running	aux
18	running	run	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 danger	acl:relcl
19	into	into	ADP	_	18 running	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 STAG	punct
21	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obj
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 farmyard	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 farmyard	det
25	farmyard	farmyard	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 took	obl
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 hid	cc
27	hid	hide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 took	conj
28	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 hid	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 shed	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 shed	det
31	shed	shed	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 hid	obl
32	among	among	ADP	_	34 oxen	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 oxen	det
34	oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 hid	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	chase	participle		a STAG not said here		by the hounds; roundly property	vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by hound=Trajectory
2	blind	participle				by fear to the danger	tree rules
3	run	past · progressive	Stag	the danger not said here			vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme danger=Trajectory
4	take	past	a STAG	shelter	a farmyard		vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in farmyard=Location
5	hide	past	a STAG not said here	Stag	a shed	among the oxen	vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in shed=Location

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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