Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 136
The Swan, threatened with death, burst forth into song and thus made himself known by his voice, and preserved his life by his melody.
Who acts: Swan, Goose · What happens: threaten, burst, make, know, preserve · To what, where: Swan, song, Goose, life
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 (Swan, Goose), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Swan | det |
| 2 | Swan | swan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 threatened | punct |
| 4 | threatened | threaten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Swan | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 death | case |
| 6 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 threatened | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Swan | punct |
| 8 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 8 burst | advmod |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 song | case |
| 11 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 burst | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 made | cc |
| 13 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 14 made | advmod |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | conj |
| 15 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 made | obj |
| 16 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 made | xcomp |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 voice | case |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 voice | nmod:poss |
| 19 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 known | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 preserved | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 preserved | cc |
| 22 | preserved | preserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 burst | conj |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 life | nmod:poss |
| 24 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preserved | obj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 melody | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 melody | nmod:poss |
| 27 | melody | melody | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 preserved | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | threaten | participle | the Swan not said here | with death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | burst | past | the Swan | song | forth property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 3 | make | past | the Swan not said here | Goose | thus property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | know | participle | Goose not said here | by Goose's voice | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 5 | preserve | past | the Swan not said here | Goose's life | by Goose's melody | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Beneficiary |
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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