Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 103
The Fox by a strange fatality rushed to the fields of the Farmer who had captured him.
Who acts: fields · What happens: rush, capture · To what, where: strange fatality, Fox
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fields), 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 Fox | det |
| 2 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 fatality | case |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fatality | det |
| 5 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 fatality | amod |
| 6 | fatality | fatality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Fox | nmod |
| 7 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 fatality | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 fields | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 fields | det |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 rushed | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Farmer | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Farmer | det |
| 13 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 fields | nmod |
| 14 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 captured | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 captured | aux |
| 16 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 fields | acl:relcl |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 captured | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Fox | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle | a strange fatality not said here | to the fields of the Farmer result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to field=Result | ||||
| 2 | capture | past · perfect | the fields of the Farmer | Fox | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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