Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 585
She is only waiting her chance to fly down and carry off one of your little pigs when you take them out, to feed her brood with." She succeeded in frightening the Sow as much as the Eagle.
Who acts: Satyr, you · What happens: wait, fly down, carry off, take out, feed, succeed · To what, where: chance, one, pigs, brood, Sow · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Satyr, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 waiting | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | aux |
| 3 | only | only | ADV | _ | 4 waiting | advmod |
| 4 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 chance | nmod:poss |
| 6 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 waiting | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 fly | mark |
| 8 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 chance | acl |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 fly | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carry | cc |
| 11 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 fly | conj |
| 12 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 carry | compound:prt |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 carry | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pigs | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 pigs | nmod:poss |
| 16 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 pigs | amod |
| 17 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 one | nmod |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 take | advmod |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 take | nsubj |
| 20 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 carry | advcl |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 take | obj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 20 take | compound:prt |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 feed | punct |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 feed | mark |
| 25 | feed | feed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 carry | advcl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 brood | nmod:poss |
| 27 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 feed | obj |
| 28 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 feed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 waiting | punct |
| 31 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 succeeded | nsubj |
| 32 | succeeded | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 waiting | parataxis |
| 33 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 34 frightening | mark |
| 34 | frightening | frighten | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 succeeded | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Sow | det |
| 36 | Sow | sow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 frightening | obj |
| 37 | as | as | ADV | _ | 38 much | advmod |
| 38 | much | much | ADV | Degree=Pos | 34 frightening | advmod |
| 39 | as | as | ADP | _ | 41 Eagle | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 Eagle | det |
| 41 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 much | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 succeeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | present · progressive | Satyr | Satyr's chance | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fly down | to-infinitive | Satyr not said here | Satyr's chance not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry off | infinitive | Satyr not said here | one of your little pigs | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | take out | present | you | pigs = pig | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | feed | to-infinitive | Satyr not said here | Satyr's brood | vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brood=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | succeed in a quote | past | Satyr | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | frighten in a quote | gerund | Satyr not said here | the Sow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus sow=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | chance | Satyr | nom chance «state 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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:585.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.3.
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