The Aesop for Children, The Heron, sentence 1

A Heron was walking sedately along the bank of a stream, his eyes on the clear water, and his long neck and pointed bill ready to snap up a likely morsel for his breakfast.

Who acts: Heron · What happens: walk, point, snap up · To what, where: bank, likely morsel

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Heron. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Heron), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Heron	det
2	Heron	heron	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walking	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 walking	aux
4	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	sedately	sedately	ADV	_	4 walking	advmod
6	along	along	ADP	_	8 bank	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bank	det
8	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 walking	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 stream	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bank	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eyes	punct
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eyes	nmod:poss
14	eyes	eye	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 stream	conj
15	on	on	ADP	_	18 water	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 water	det
17	clear	clear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 water	amod
18	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 eyes	nmod
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 ready	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 ready	cc
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 neck	nmod:poss
22	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 neck	amod
23	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 ready	nsubj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 bill	cc
25	pointed	point	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 bill	amod
26	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 neck	conj
27	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 walking	advcl
28	to	to	PART	_	29 snap	mark
29	snap	snap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 ready	xcomp
30	up	up	ADP	_	29 snap	compound:prt
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 morsel	det
32	likely	likely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 morsel	amod
33	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 snap	obj
34	for	for	ADP	_	36 breakfast	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 breakfast	nmod:poss
36	breakfast	breakfast	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 morsel	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 walking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	walk	past · progressive	a Heron		the bank of a stream and Heron's eyes on the clear water	sedately property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along bank=Trajectory
2	point	participle					vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	snap up	to-infinitive	a Heron not said here	a likely morsel		for Heron's breakfast	vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location morsel=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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