The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 4
But when he tried to rise again he found that he could not get away, for his claws were tangled in the wool.
Who acts: head · What happens: try, rise, find, not get away, tangle · To what, where: claws, wool · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (head), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 found | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 tried | advmod |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 tried | nsubj |
| 4 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 found | advcl |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 rise | mark |
| 6 | rise | rise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tried | xcomp |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 tried | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | ccomp |
| 15 | away | away | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 tangled | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 tangled | mark |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 claws | nmod:poss |
| 19 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 tangled | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 tangled | aux:pass |
| 21 | tangled | tangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 found | advcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 wool | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 wool | det |
| 24 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 tangled | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | head | again | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | rise not said to happen | to-infinitive | head not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | head | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not get away | could | head | away property | vn withdraw-82-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | tangle | past · passive | head's claws | the wool | 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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