The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 5

When he saw how gaily the birds flew about and how the Hare and the Chipmunk and all the other animals ran nimbly by, always eager to see everything there was to be seen, the Tortoise felt very sad and discontented.

Who acts: Tortoise, gaily birds, Hare · What happens: see, fly, run, feel, discontent · To what, where: everything

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoise, gaily birds, Hare), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 saw	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flew	advcl
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	5 gaily	advmod
5	gaily	gaily	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 birds	det
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 flew	nsubj
8	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	about	about	ADV	_	8 flew	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ran	cc
11	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	22 ran	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Hare	det
13	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 ran	nsubj
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 Chipmunk	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Chipmunk	det
16	Chipmunk	Chipmunk	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 Hare	conj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 animals	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 animals	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 animals	det
20	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 animals	amod
21	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 Hare	conj
22	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flew	conj
23	nimbly	nimbly	ADV	_	22 ran	advmod
24	by	by	ADP	_	22 ran	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eager	punct
26	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	27 eager	advmod
27	eager	eager	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 flew	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 see	mark
29	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 eager	xcomp
30	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	29 see	obj
31	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	32 was	expl
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 everything	acl:relcl
33	to	to	PART	_	35 seen	mark
34	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 seen	aux:pass
35	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	32 was	advcl
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 felt	punct
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 Tortoise	det
38	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 felt	nsubj
39	felt	feel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 flew	conj
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 sad	advmod
41	sad	sad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 felt	xcomp
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 discontented	cc
43	discontented	discontent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 felt	conj
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Tortoise			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	fly	past	the gaily birds		about property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	run	past	the Hare and the Chipmunk and all other animals		nimbly property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	see	to-infinitive	the gaily birds not said here	everything		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer everything=Stimulus
5	see	to-infinitive · passive	the gaily birds not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»
6	feel	past	the Tortoise		sad property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
7	discontent	past	the Tortoise not said here			tree rules

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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