Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 123

As they scampered off in large numbers to carry out their resolve, the Frogs lying on the banks of the lake heard the noise of their feet and rushed helter-skelter to the deep water for safety.

Who acts: Hares, Frogs, feet · What happens: scamper off, carry out, lie, hear, rush, noise · To what, where: large numbers, resolve, banks, noise

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hares, Frogs, feet), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:680): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 scampered	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 scampered	nsubj
3	scampered	scamper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	advcl
4	off	off	ADP	_	3 scampered	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 numbers	case
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 numbers	amod
7	numbers	number	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 scampered	obl
8	to	to	PART	_	9 carry	mark
9	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 scampered	advcl
10	out	out	ADP	_	9 carry	compound:prt
11	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 resolve	nmod:poss
12	resolve	resolve	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 carry	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 scampered	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Frogs	det
15	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 heard	nsubj
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 Frogs	acl
17	on	on	ADP	_	19 banks	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 banks	det
19	banks	bank	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 lying	obl
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 lake	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 lake	det
22	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 banks	nmod
23	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 noise	det
25	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 heard	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 feet	case
27	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 feet	nmod:poss
28	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 noise	nmod
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 rushed	cc
30	rushed	rush	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 heard	conj
31	helter	helter	ADV	_	33 skelter	compound
32	-	-	PUNCT	_	33 skelter	punct
33	skelter	skelter	ADV	_	30 rushed	advmod
34	to	to	ADP	_	37 water	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 water	det
36	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 water	amod
37	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rushed	obl
38	for	for	ADP	_	39 safety	case
39	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 rushed	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	23 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scamper off	past	Hares = hare		large numbers		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in number=Trajectory
2	carry out	to-infinitive	Hares = hare not said here	Hares's resolve			vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resolve=Eventuality
3	lie	gerund	the Frogs not said here		the banks of the lake		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location
4	hear	past	the Frogs	the noise of Hares's feet			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer noise=Stimulus
5	rush	past	the Frogs not said here			to the deep water result; for safety; skelter property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to water=Result
6	noise		Hares's feet				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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