The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Kite, sentence 2
She seemed very sad and drooping for an Eagle.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: be, droop
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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 sad | nsubj |
| 2 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sad | cop |
| 3 | very | very | ADV | _ | 4 sad | advmod |
| 4 | sad | sad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 drooping | cc |
| 6 | drooping | droop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sad | conj |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 Eagle | case |
| 8 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 Eagle | det |
| 9 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 drooping | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sad | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Eagle | sad property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | droop | gerund | Eagle not said here | for a Eagle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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