Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 32

He seized him boldly by the ear, but could not retain his hold because of the decay of his teeth, so that the boar escaped.

Who acts: Hound, boar, teeth · What happens: seize, not retain, escape, hold, decay · To what, where: storm, hold

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 (Hound, boar, teeth), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	nsubj
2	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 seized	obj
4	boldly	boldly	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 seized	advmod
5	by	by	ADP	_	7 ear	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 ear	det
7	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 seized	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 retain	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 retain	cc
10	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 retain	aux
11	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 retain	advmod
12	retain	retain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 seized	parataxis
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 hold	nmod:poss
14	hold	hold	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 retain	obj
15	because	because	ADP	ExtPos=ADP	18 decay	case
16	of	of	ADP	_	15 because	fixed
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 decay	det
18	decay	decay	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 retain	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 teeth	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 teeth	nmod:poss
21	teeth	tooth	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 decay	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 escaped	punct
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 escaped	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 boar	det
26	boar	boar	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 escaped	nsubj
27	escaped	escape	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 retain	conj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	seize	past	Hound	storm	by the ear; boldly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	not retain	could		Hound's hold	because the decay of Hound's teeth	tree rules
3	escape	past	the boar			vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hold		Hound			nom hold «act transitive»: poss=agent
5	decay		Hound's teeth			nom decay «process 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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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