The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 12
But when the tide of battle turned, they immediately sided with the Beasts.
Who acts: tide, Chickens, battle · What happens: turn, side, tide
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 (tide, Chickens, battle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 sided | cc |
| 2 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 7 turned | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 tide | det |
| 4 | tide | tide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 battle | case |
| 6 | battle | battle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 tide | nmod |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 sided | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 sided | nsubj |
| 10 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 11 sided | advmod |
| 11 | sided | side | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 Beasts | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Beasts | det |
| 14 | Beasts | Beast | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 sided | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sided | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn | participle | the tide of battle | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | side | past | Chickens = chicken | with the Beasts; immediately property | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with beast=Theme | ||||
| 3 | tide | battle | nom tide «event intransitive»: of=agent |
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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