Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 82

They fiercely disputed which of them should drink first, and were soon engaged in the agonies of a mortal combat.

Who acts: beasts · What happens: dispute, drink, engage · To what, where: agonies

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 (beasts), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 disputed	nsubj
2	fiercely	fiercely	ADV	_	3 disputed	advmod
3	disputed	dispute	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 drink	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 them	case
6	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drink	obl
7	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 drink	aux
8	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 disputed	ccomp
9	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	8 drink	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 engaged	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 engaged	cc
12	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 engaged	aux:pass
13	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	14 engaged	advmod
14	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 disputed	conj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 agonies	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 agonies	det
17	agonies	agony	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 engaged	obl
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 combat	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 combat	det
20	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 combat	amod
21	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 agonies	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 disputed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	dispute	past	beasts = beast	fiercely property	tree rules
2	drink	should	beasts = beast not said here	of beasts = beast; first property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient
3	engage	past · passive	beasts = beast not said here	in the agonies of a mortal combat goal; soon property	vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: in agony=Goal

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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