Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 27

When the pool dried up under the summer’s heat, they left it and set out together for another home.

Who acts: pool, Frogs, summer · What happens: dry up, leave, set out, heat · To what, where: heat, pool

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 (pool, Frogs, summer), 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	4 dried	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pool	det
3	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	nsubj
4	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 dried	compound:prt
6	under	under	ADP	_	10 heat	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 summer	det
8	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 heat	nmod:poss
9	’s	's	PART	_	8 summer	case
10	heat	heat	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dried	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 left	punct
12	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	nsubj
13	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dried	parataxis
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 left	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 set	cc
16	set	set	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 left	conj
17	out	out	ADP	_	16 set	compound:prt
18	together	together	ADV	_	16 set	advmod
19	for	for	ADP	_	21 home	case
20	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	21 home	det
21	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 set	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	dry up	participle	the pool		the summer's heat		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	leave	past	Frogs = frog	pool			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	set out	infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here			for another home; together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	heat		the summer				nom heat «phenomenon intransitive»: 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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