The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 3
Far into the sky he soared trying to shake off his enemy.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: soar, try, shake off · To what, where: enemy
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 | Far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 soared | advmod |
| 2 | into | into | ADP | _ | 4 sky | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sky | det |
| 4 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Far | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 soared | nsubj |
| 6 | soared | soar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | trying | try | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 soared | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 shake | mark |
| 9 | shake | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 trying | xcomp |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 shake | compound:prt |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 12 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shake | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 soared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar | past | Eagle | far property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | try | gerund | Eagle not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | shake off not said to happen | to-infinitive | Eagle not said here | Eagle's enemy | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent enemy=Patient |
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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