The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 5
But an Eagle, circling overhead, heard the boasting chanticleer and, swooping down, carried him off to his nest.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: circle, hear, boast, swoop down, carry off · To what, where: boasting chanticleer, Eagle, nest
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 heard | cc |
| 2 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 circling | punct |
| 5 | circling | circle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Eagle | acl |
| 6 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 5 circling | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Eagle | punct |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 chanticleer | det |
| 10 | boasting | boast | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 chanticleer | amod |
| 11 | chanticleer | chanticleer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 swooping | cc |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swooping | punct |
| 14 | swooping | swoop | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 heard | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADV | _ | 14 swooping | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 carried | punct |
| 17 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 carried | obj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 carried | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 nest | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 nest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 carried | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | circle | gerund | a Eagle not said here | overhead property | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hear | past | a Eagle | the boasting chanticleer | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer chanticleer=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | boast speech: other | gerund | vn complain-37.8 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | swoop down | gerund | a Eagle not said here | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry off | past | a Eagle not said here | Eagle | Eagle's nest | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to nest=Destination |
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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