Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 117
He ran in between them, and seizing the Kid scampered off as fast as he could.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: run, seize, scamper off · To what, where: Kid
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 (Fox), 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 ran | nsubj |
| 2 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADV | _ | 2 ran | advmod |
| 4 | between | between | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 ran | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 scampered | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 scampered | cc |
| 8 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 scampered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Kid | det |
| 10 | Kid | Kid | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 seizing | obj |
| 11 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 ran | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 scampered | compound:prt |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 fast | advmod |
| 14 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 scampered | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 could | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 could | nsubj |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 fast | advcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Fox | between Seagull | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme between they=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seize | gerund | the Kid | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kid=Theme | |||||
| 3 | scamper off | participle · passive | fast property | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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