The Aesop for Children, The Birds, the Beasts, and the Bat, sentence 8
Chickens and Geese fell by the score--and the victor always stopped for a feast.
Who acts: Chickens, victor · What happens: fall, stop
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, victor), 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 | Chickens | chicken | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 fell | nsubj |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 Geese | cc |
| 3 | Geese | goose | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Chickens | conj |
| 4 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 score | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 score | det |
| 7 | score | score | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 fell | obl |
| 8 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 13 stopped | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 stopped | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 victor | det |
| 11 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | nsubj |
| 12 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 13 stopped | advmod |
| 13 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 fell | conj |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 feast | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 stopped | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | Chickens and Geese | by the score | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by score=Location | ||||
| 2 | stop | past | the victor | for a feast; always property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
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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