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The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 12

But after the wedding, when the Kite flew away to find something to eat for his bride, all he had when he returned, was a tiny Mouse.

Who acts: Kite, all · What happens: fly away, find, eat, have, return, be · To what, where: something, tiny Mouse

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 (Kite, all), 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

cccasedetoblpunctmarkdetnsubjadvmodmarkadvclobjmarkaclcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjnsubjacl:relcladvmodnsubjccomppunctcopdetamodacl:relclpunctrootButCCONJafterADPtheDETweddingNOUN,PUNCTwhenSCONJtheDETKiteNOUNflewVERBawayADVtoPARTfindVERBsomethingPRONtoPARTeatVERBforADPhisPRONbrideNOUN,PUNCTallDEThePRONhadVERBwhenADVhePRONreturnedVERB,PUNCTwasAUXaDETtinyADJMouseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_9 flewcc
2afterafterADP_4 weddingcase
3thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art4 weddingdet
4weddingweddingNOUNNumber=Sing9 flewobl
5,,PUNCT_4 weddingpunct
6whenwhenSCONJ_9 flewmark
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Kitedet
8KitekiteNOUNNumber=Sing9 flewnsubj
9flewflyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
10awayawayADV_9 flewadvmod
11totoPART_12 findmark
12findfindVERBVerbForm=Inf9 flewadvcl
13somethingsomethingPRONNumber=Sing PronType=Ind12 findobj
14totoPART_15 eatmark
15eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf13 somethingacl
16forforADP_18 bridecase
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 bridenmod:poss
18bridebrideNOUNNumber=Sing15 eatobl
19,,PUNCT_30 Mousepunct
20allallDETPronType=Tot30 Mousensubj
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 hadnsubj
22hadhaveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 allacl:relcl
23whenwhenADVPronType=Int25 returnedadvmod
24hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 returnednsubj
25returnedreturnVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 hadccomp
26,,PUNCT_20 allpunct
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 Mousecop
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art30 Mousedet
29tinytinyADJDegree=Pos30 Mouseamod
30MousemouseNOUNNumber=Sing18 brideacl:relcl
31..PUNCT_9 flewpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1fly awaypastthe Kiteafter the weddingaway propertyvn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2findto-infinitivethe Kite not said heresomethingvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
3eatto-infinitivethe Kite not said heresomething not said herefor Kite's bridevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4havepastKitetree rules
5returnpastKitevn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6is apastalla tiny Mousetree 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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