The Aesop for Children, A Raven and a Swan, sentence 3
So he left his home in the woods and fields and flew down to live on the lakes and in the marshes.
Who acts: bird · What happens: leave, fly down, live · To what, where: home, woods, lakes
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, A Raven and a Swan. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 left | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 home | nmod:poss |
| 5 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 left | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 woods | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 woods | det |
| 8 | woods | wood | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 left | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 fields | cc |
| 10 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 woods | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 flew | cc |
| 12 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 left | conj |
| 13 | down | down | ADV | _ | 12 flew | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 live | mark |
| 15 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 flew | xcomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 lakes | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 lakes | det |
| 18 | lakes | lake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 live | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 marshes | cc |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 marshes | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 marshes | det |
| 22 | marshes | marsh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lakes | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | bird | bird's home | the woods and fields | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent home=Theme in wood=Location | |||
| 2 | fly down | past | bird not said here | down property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | bird not said here | the lakes and the marshes | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on lake=Location |
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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