The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 11

So when they saw the Birds getting the better of it, they were Birds for all there was in it.

Who acts: Chickens, Birds · What happens: see, get, be · To what, where: Birds, race

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Chickens, Birds), 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	_	4 saw	advmod
2	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 saw	advmod
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 saw	nsubj
4	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Birds	det
6	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	obj
7	getting	get	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 Birds	acl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 better	det
9	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	7 getting	xcomp
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 it	case
11	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 better	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 Birds	punct
13	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 Birds	nsubj
14	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 Birds	cop
15	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 saw	conj
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	19 was	mark
17	all	all	ADV	_	19 was	advmod
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 was	expl
19	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 saw	advcl
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 it	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 was	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	past	Chickens = chicken	the Birds			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus
2	get	gerund	the Birds not said here			good property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	is a	past	Chickens = chicken	Birds			tree rules
4	be	past	Chickens = chicken not said here		race; there	all property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in it=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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