The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 1
An Eagle, swooping down on powerful wings, seized a lamb in her talons and made off with it to her nest.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: swoop down, seize, make off · To what, where: powerful wings, lamb, talons
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 swooping | punct |
| 4 | swooping | swoop | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Eagle | acl |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 swooping | advmod |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 wings | case |
| 7 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 wings | amod |
| 8 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 swooping | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Eagle | punct |
| 10 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 lamb | det |
| 12 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 seized | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 talons | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 talons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 seized | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 made | cc |
| 17 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 seized | conj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 made | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 made | obl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 nest | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 nest | nmod:poss |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 made | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swoop down | gerund | a Eagle not said here | powerful wings | down property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | seize | past | a Eagle | a lamb | Eagle's talons | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lamb=Theme | |||
| 3 | make off | participle | a Eagle not said here | with lamb; to Eagle's nest | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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