Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 22
When he finished, he was so full that he was not able to get out, and began to groan and lament his fate.
Who acts: Fox · What happens: finish, be, not be, get out, begin, groan · To what, where: fate
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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 finished | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 finished | nsubj |
| 3 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 finished | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 full | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | cop |
| 7 | so | so | ADV | _ | 8 full | advmod |
| 8 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 able | mark |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 able | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 able | cop |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 able | advmod |
| 13 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 full | advcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 able | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADV | _ | 15 get | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 began | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 began | cc |
| 19 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 full | conj |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 groan | mark |
| 21 | groan | groan | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 began | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 lament | cc |
| 23 | lament | lament | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 groan | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 fate | nmod:poss |
| 25 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 lament | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | finish | past | Fox | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | is | past | Fox | full property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Fox | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | get out | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | begin | past | Fox not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | groan | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | lament | infinitive | Fox not said here | Fox's fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | fate | Fox | nom fate «event transitive»: poss=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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