Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 84
He fell with force upon the ground and limped away, howling dreadfully.
Who acts: care · What happens: fall, limp away, howl · To what, where: ground
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 (care), 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 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 force | case |
| 4 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 ground | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 ground | det |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 fell | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 limped | cc |
| 9 | limped | limp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 fell | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 limped | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 howling | punct |
| 12 | howling | howl | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 limped | advcl |
| 13 | dreadfully | dreadfully | ADV | _ | 12 howling | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | care | the ground | with force | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location | |||
| 2 | limp away | past | care not said here | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | howl | gerund | care not said here | dreadfully property | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=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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