The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 6
Out popped the old Owl's head from the opening in the tree that served her both for door and for window.
Who acts: tree · What happens: pop, serve · To what, where: head, opening, Owl
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 (tree), 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 | Out | out | ADV | _ | 2 popped | advmod |
| 2 | popped | pop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Owl | det |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Owl | amod |
| 5 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 head | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 Owl | case |
| 7 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 popped | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 opening | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 opening | det |
| 10 | opening | opening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 popped | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opening | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 served | nsubj |
| 15 | served | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tree | acl:relcl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 served | obj |
| 17 | both | both | ADV | _ | 15 served | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 door | case |
| 19 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 served | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 window | cc |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 window | case |
| 22 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 served | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 popped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pop | past | the old Owl's head | the opening in the tree | out property | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||
| 2 | serve | past | the tree | Owl | for door; both property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme for door=Recipient |
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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