Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 28

As they went along they chanced to pass a deep well, amply supplied with water, and when they saw it, one of the Frogs said to the other, “Let us descend and make our abode in this well: it will furnish us with shelter and food.”

Who acts: Frogs, us, abode · What happens: go along, chance, pass, supply, see, say · To what, where: deep well, well, one, other, us, abode · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Frogs, us, abode), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 went	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 went	nsubj
3	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	along	along	ADV	_	3 went	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 chanced	nsubj
6	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 pass	mark
8	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 chanced	xcomp
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 well	det
10	deep	deep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 well	amod
11	well	well	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 pass	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 supplied	punct
13	amply	amply	ADV	_	14 supplied	advmod
14	supplied	supply	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 well	acl
15	with	with	ADP	_	16 water	case
16	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 supplied	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saw	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 saw	cc
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	21 saw	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	nsubj
21	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 went	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 saw	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 one	punct
24	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	28 said	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 Frogs	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Frogs	det
27	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 said	nsubj
28	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 saw	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	31 other	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 other	det
31	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 said	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Let	punct
33	“	"	PUNCT	_	34 Let	punct
34	Let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 said	ccomp
35	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 Let	obj
36	descend	descend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 Let	xcomp
37	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 make	cc
38	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 Let	conj
39	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 abode	nmod:poss
40	abode	abode	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 make	obj
41	in	in	ADP	_	42 this	case
42	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 make	obl
43	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	38 make	advmod
44	:	:	PUNCT	_	47 furnish	punct
45	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 furnish	nsubj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 furnish	aux
47	furnish	furnish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 Let	conj
48	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 furnish	obj
49	with	with	ADP	_	50 shelter	case
50	shelter	shelter	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 furnish	obl
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 food	cc
52	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 shelter	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct
54	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	go along	past	Frogs = frog				along property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	chance	past	Frogs = frog					vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
3	pass	to-infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here	a deep well				vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme well=Trajectory
4	supply	participle		a deep well not said here			with water; amply property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with water=Theme
5	see	past	Frogs = frog	well				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus
6	say speech: assert	past	the Frogs	one	the other			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic
7	let in a quote	infinitive		us				tree rules
8	descend in a quote	infinitive	us not said here					vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	make in a quote	infinitive		our abode		this	well property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset abode=Product
10	furnish in a quote	future	abode		us		with shelter and food	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Recipient with shelter=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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