The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 20

Up he jumped to the Owl's den, but as soon as he was near enough so the old Owl could see him clearly, she pounced upon him and ate him up.

Who acts: Grasshopper, old Owl, Owl · What happens: jump, be, see, pounce, eat up · To what, where: Grasshopper

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper, old Owl, Owl), 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	Up	up	ADP	_	3 jumped	mark
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 jumped	nsubj
3	jumped	jump	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	8 den	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Owl	det
6	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 den	nmod:poss
7	's	's	PART	_	6 Owl	case
8	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 jumped	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pounced	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 pounced	cc
11	as	as	ADV	_	12 soon	advmod
12	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	28 pounced	advmod
13	as	as	SCONJ	_	16 near	mark
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 near	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 near	cop
16	near	near	ADV	_	12 soon	advcl
17	enough	enough	ADV	_	16 near	advmod
18	so	so	SCONJ	_	23 see	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Owl	det
20	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Owl	amod
21	Owl	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 see	nsubj
22	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 see	aux
23	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 soon	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 see	obj
25	clearly	clearly	ADV	_	23 see	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pounced	punct
27	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pounced	nsubj
28	pounced	pounce	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 jumped	parataxis
29	upon	upon	ADP	_	30 him	case
30	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pounced	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 ate	cc
32	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 pounced	conj
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 ate	obj
34	up	up	ADP	_	32 ate	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 jumped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	jump	past	Grasshopper		to the Owl's den result	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to den=Result
2	is	past	Grasshopper		enough, near property	tree rules
3	see	could	the old Owl	Grasshopper	clearly property	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	pounce	past	Owl		upon Grasshopper; soon property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory
5	eat up	past	Owl not said here	Grasshopper		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

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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