The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 5
And so far was he from carrying away the Ram, that the Ram hardly noticed he was there.
Who acts: head, Ram · What happens: carry away, notice, be · To what, where: Ram · 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, Ram), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 carrying | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 far | advmod |
| 3 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 carrying | advmod |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carrying | aux |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 carrying | nsubj |
| 6 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 7 carrying | mark |
| 7 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | away | away | ADV | _ | 7 carrying | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Ram | det |
| 10 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 carrying | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 noticed | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 noticed | mark |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Ram | det |
| 14 | Ram | Ram | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 noticed | nsubj |
| 15 | hardly | hardly | ADV | _ | 16 noticed | advmod |
| 16 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 carrying | conj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 there | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 there | cop |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 noticed | ccomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry away | past · progressive | head | the Ram | away, far property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ram=Theme | |||
| 2 | notice | past | the Ram | hardly property | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | past | head | there 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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