The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 1
An Eagle sat high in the branches of a great Oak.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: sit · To what, where: branches
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Kite. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 sat | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 branches | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 branches | det |
| 7 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Oak | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Oak | det |
| 10 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Oak | amod |
| 11 | Oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 branches | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a Eagle | the branches of a great Oak | high property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location |
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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