Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 129

Having handled the net, he threw it into the river, but became tangled in the meshes and drowned.

Who acts: Necessity · What happens: have, handle, throw, become, tangle, drown · To what, where: net, fishing, river, meshes

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 (Necessity), 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	Having	have	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 threw	advcl
2	handled	handle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	1 Having	xcomp
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 net	det
4	net	net	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 handled	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Having	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	nsubj
7	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 threw	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	11 river	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 river	det
11	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 threw	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 became	punct
13	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 became	cc
14	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 threw	conj
15	tangled	tangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 became	xcomp
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 meshes	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 meshes	det
18	meshes	mesh	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 tangled	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 drowned	cc
20	drowned	drown	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 became	conj
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund	Necessity not said here				tree rules
2	handle	participle	Necessity not said here	the net			vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme
3	throw	past	Necessity	fishing		into the river result	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into river=Result
4	become	past	Necessity not said here				tree rules
5	tangle	participle	Necessity not said here		the meshes		tree rules
6	drown	past	Necessity not said here				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: 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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