The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 2
At last one day they flew up to fight it out, beak and claw.
Who acts: Cocks · What happens: fly up, fight out · To what, where: sight
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cocks), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 3 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | compound |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 flew | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 flew | nsubj |
| 6 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 flew | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fight | mark |
| 9 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 flew | xcomp |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fight | obj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 fight | compound:prt |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 beak | punct |
| 13 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fight | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 claw | cc |
| 15 | claw | claw | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beak | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | past | Cocks = cock | day | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | fight out | to-infinitive | Cocks = cock not said here | sight | beak and claw obl | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
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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