Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 124

One of them climbed up and stung him, and he immediately trampled them all to death with his foot.

Who acts: One, Philosopher · What happens: climb up, sting, trample · To what, where: Philosopher, Ants

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 (One, Philosopher), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 climbed	nsubj
2	of	of	ADP	_	3 them	case
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 One	nmod
4	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 climbed	compound:prt
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 stung	cc
7	stung	sting	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
8	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 stung	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 trampled	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 trampled	cc
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trampled	nsubj
12	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	13 trampled	advmod
13	trampled	trample	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 climbed	conj
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 trampled	obj
15	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 them	nmod:unmarked
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 death	case
17	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trampled	obl
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 foot	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 foot	nmod:poss
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 trampled	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 climbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	climb up	past	One of Ants			vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	sting	past	One of Ants not said here	Philosopher		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
3	trample	past	Philosopher	Ants = ant	to death; with Philosopher's foot; immediately property	tree rules

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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