The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 15
And since then the Bat family hides in dark towers and deserted ruins, flying out only in the night.
Who acts: Bat family · What happens: hide, desert, fly out · To what, where: dark towers
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 (Bat family), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 hides | cc |
| 2 | since | since | ADP | _ | 3 then | case |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 hides | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 family | det |
| 5 | Bat | Bat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 family | compound |
| 6 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hides | nsubj |
| 7 | hides | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 towers | case |
| 9 | dark | dark | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 towers | amod |
| 10 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 hides | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 ruins | cc |
| 12 | deserted | desert | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 ruins | amod |
| 13 | ruins | ruin | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 towers | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 flying | punct |
| 15 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 hides | advcl |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 flying | compound:prt |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 20 night | advmod |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 night | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 night | det |
| 20 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 flying | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 hides | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | present | the Bat family | dark towers and deserted ruins | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tower=Location | ||||
| 2 | desert | participle | vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fly out | gerund | the Bat family not said here | night | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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