The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 10
At first the Cranes flew away in great terror.
Who acts: Cranes · What happens: fly away · To what, where: great terror
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Cranes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cranes), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 first | case |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 5 flew | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Cranes | det |
| 4 | Cranes | Crane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 flew | nsubj |
| 5 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 flew | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 terror | case |
| 8 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 terror | amod |
| 9 | terror | terror | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 flew | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly away | past | the Cranes | great terror | away property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at first=Location |
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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