The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 2
The Eagle could not reach the Serpent, neither with beak nor claws.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: not reach · To what, where: Serpent
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | nsubj |
| 3 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 reach | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 reach | advmod |
| 5 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Serpent | det |
| 7 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 beak | punct |
| 9 | neither | neither | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 11 beak | cc:preconj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 beak | case |
| 11 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 reach | obl |
| 12 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 13 claws | cc |
| 13 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 beak | conj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 reach | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not reach | could | the Eagle | the Serpent | with beak nor claws | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent serpent=Theme |
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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