The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 2
A Jackdaw saw the deed, and his silly head was filled with the idea that he was big and strong enough to do as the Eagle had done.
Who acts: Jackdaw, head, Eagle · What happens: see, fill, be, do · To what, where: deed, silly head
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 (Jackdaw, head, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Jackdaw | det |
| 2 | Jackdaw | Jackdaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 deed | det |
| 5 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 filled | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 filled | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 head | nmod:poss |
| 9 | silly | silly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 head | amod |
| 10 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | nsubj |
| 11 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 filled | aux:pass |
| 12 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 idea | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 idea | det |
| 15 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 filled | obl |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 big | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 big | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 big | cop |
| 19 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 filled | advcl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 strong | cc |
| 21 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 big | conj |
| 22 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 21 strong | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 do | mark |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 strong | advcl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 29 done | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Eagle | det |
| 27 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 done | nsubj |
| 28 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 done | aux |
| 29 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 do | advcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a Jackdaw | the deed | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer deed=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | fill | past · passive | Jackdaw's silly head | with the idea | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with idea=Instrument | ||||
| 3 | is | past | head | big property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | head not said here | enough property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | head not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | do | past · perfect | the Eagle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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