The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 6

The young Larks in their nest close by were much frightened, for they knew they would be in great danger if they did not leave the nest before the reapers came.

Who acts: friends, reapers · What happens: frighten, know, be, not leave, come · To what, where: young Larks, great danger, nest · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (friends, reapers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Larks	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Larks	amod
3	Larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 frightened	nsubj:pass
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 nest	nmod:poss
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 Larks	nmod
7	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 nest	amod
8	by	by	ADP	_	7 close	fixed
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	aux:pass
10	much	much	ADV	_	11 frightened	advmod
11	frightened	frighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 knew	punct
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	15 knew	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 knew	nsubj
15	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 frightened	conj
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 danger	nsubj
17	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 danger	aux
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 danger	cop
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 danger	case
20	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 danger	amod
21	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knew	ccomp
22	if	if	SCONJ	_	26 leave	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 leave	nsubj
24	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 leave	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 leave	advmod
26	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 danger	csubj
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 nest	det
28	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 leave	obj
29	before	before	SCONJ	_	32 came	mark
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 reapers	det
31	reapers	reaper	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 came	nsubj
32	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 leave	advcl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	frighten	past · passive		the young Larks in friends's nest		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	know	past	friends = friend			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
3	is	would	friends = friend		great danger	tree rules
4	not leave a condition, not said to happen	past · do-support	friends = friend	the nest		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Theme
5	come	past	the reapers			vn escape-51.1-1 «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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