The Aesop for Children, The Heron, sentence 9
The Heron saw no more fish, and very glad was he at last to breakfast on a tiny Snail.
Who acts: Heron, fish · What happens: see, be · To what, where: more fish
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, fish), 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 Heron | det |
| 2 | Heron | Heron | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | ADV | _ | 6 fish | advmod |
| 5 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 fish | amod |
| 6 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 glad | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 glad | cc |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 glad | advmod |
| 10 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 last | advcl |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 last | cop |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 last | nsubj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 last | case |
| 14 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 saw | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 breakfast | case |
| 16 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 last | obl |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 Snail | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Snail | det |
| 19 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Snail | amod |
| 20 | Snail | snail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the Heron | more fish | on a tiny Snail | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fish=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | is | past | fish | to breakfast; last property | tree rules |
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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