The Aesop for Children, The Fighting Cocks and the Eagle, sentence 6
His rival saw the deed, and coming out of his corner, took his place as master of the farmyard.
Who acts: rival · What happens: see, come out, take · To what, where: deed, corner, place
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 (rival), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 rival | nmod:poss |
| 2 | rival | rival | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deed | det |
| 5 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 coming | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 coming | cc |
| 8 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 saw | conj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 corner | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 corner | nmod:poss |
| 12 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 coming | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 took | punct |
| 14 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 place | nmod:poss |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 master | case |
| 18 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 took | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 farmyard | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 farmyard | det |
| 21 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 master | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | Eagle's rival | the deed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | come out | gerund | Eagle's rival not said here | Eagle's corner | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient corner=Result | ||||
| 3 | take | past | Eagle's rival not said here | Eagle's place | as master of the farmyard | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent place=Theme as master=Attribute |
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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