Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 115

When they had fearfully lacerated each other and were faint from the long combat, they lay down exhausted with fatigue.

Who acts: Seagull · What happens: lacerate, be, lay down, exhaust · To what, where: each, long combat

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 (Seagull), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 lacerated	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 lacerated	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 lacerated	aux
4	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	5 lacerated	advmod
5	lacerated	lacerate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 lay	advcl
6	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	5 lacerated	obj
7	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 each	fixed
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 faint	cc
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 faint	cop
10	faint	faint	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 lacerated	conj
11	from	from	ADP	_	14 combat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 combat	det
13	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 combat	amod
14	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 faint	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 lay	nsubj
17	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	down	down	ADV	_	19 exhausted	advmod
19	exhausted	exhaust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 lay	advcl
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 fatigue	case
21	fatigue	fatigue	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 exhausted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 lay	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lacerate	past · perfect	Seagull	each		fearfully property	tree rules
2	is	past	Seagull not said here		the long combat	faint property	tree rules
3	lay down	present	Seagull				vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	exhaust	participle	Seagull not said here			with fatigue; down property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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