The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 11
Becoming thirsty on the way, he filled his horn at a spring, and was about to drink.
Who acts: Serpent · What happens: become, fill, be, drink · To what, where: way, horn
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Serpent and the Eagle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Serpent), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:752): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 filled | advcl |
| 2 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Becoming | xcomp |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 way | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 way | det |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Becoming | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Becoming | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 filled | nsubj |
| 8 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horn | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obj |
| 11 | at | at | ADP | _ | 13 spring | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 spring | det |
| 13 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 filled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 about | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 about | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 about | cop |
| 17 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 filled | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 drink | mark |
| 19 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 about | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | gerund | Serpent not said here | the way | thirsty property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | |||
| 2 | fill | past | Serpent | Serpent's horn | spring | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent horn=Patient | |||
| 3 | is | past | Serpent not said here | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | drink | to-infinitive | Serpent not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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