The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Hedgehog, sentence 2
Soon a swarm of blood-sucking flies settled on him; but he lay quietly, still too weak to run away from them.
Who acts: swarm · What happens: suck, settle, lie, run away
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Hedgehog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swarm), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 settled | advmod |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 swarm | det |
| 3 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settled | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flies | case |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sucking | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 blood | punct |
| 7 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 flies | amod |
| 8 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 swarm | nmod |
| 9 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 settled | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 lay | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 lay | cc |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 lay | nsubj |
| 15 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 settled | parataxis |
| 16 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 15 lay | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 weak | punct |
| 18 | still | still | ADV | _ | 20 weak | advmod |
| 19 | too | too | ADV | _ | 20 weak | advmod |
| 20 | weak | weak | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lay | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 run | mark |
| 22 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 weak | advcl |
| 23 | away | away | ADV | _ | 22 run | advmod |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 run | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | settle | past | a swarm of sucking flies | on Fox; soon property | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V PP.theme S»: agent=Agent on he=Topic | ||||
| 3 | lie | past | swarm | quietly property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run away | to-infinitive | swarm not said here | from flies = fly; away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from they=Trajectory |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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