The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 10
I am so strong I can carry away an Ostrich in my talons as if it were a feather!"
Who acts: I, Ostrich · What happens: be, carry away · To what, where: Ostrich, talons
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 (I, Ostrich), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 strong | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 strong | cop |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 strong | advmod |
| 4 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 carry | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 carry | aux |
| 7 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 strong | ccomp |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 carry | advmod |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Ostrich | det |
| 10 | Ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 talons | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 talons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 carry | obl |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 19 feather | case |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 as | fixed |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 feather | nsubj |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 feather | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 feather | det |
| 19 | feather | feather | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 carry | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 strong | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | strong property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | carry away | can | I | a Ostrich | my talons | away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ostrich=Value in talon=Location | ||
| 3 | is | past | Ostrich | as a feather | tree rules |
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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