The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 5
The Eagle was constantly pouncing on the Hare, and the Owl dined daily on Mice.
Who acts: Eagle, Owl · What happens: pounce, dine
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 (Eagle, Owl), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pouncing | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pouncing | aux |
| 4 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 5 pouncing | advmod |
| 5 | pouncing | pounce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 Hare | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hare | det |
| 8 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 pouncing | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 dined | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 dined | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Owl | det |
| 12 | Owl | Owl | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dined | nsubj |
| 13 | dined | dine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 pouncing | conj |
| 14 | daily | daily | ADV | _ | 13 dined | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 Mice | case |
| 16 | Mice | Mice | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 dined | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 pouncing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounce | past · progressive | the Eagle | on the Hare; constantly property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on hare=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | dine | past | the Owl | on Mice; daily property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on mice=Patient |
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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