The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 4

But the Serpent's hold only tightened, and slowly the Eagle sank back to earth, gasping for breath.

Who acts: Eagle · What happens: tighten, sink back, gasp

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	But	but	CCONJ	_	7 tightened	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Serpent	det
3	Serpent	Serpent	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 tightened	nmod:poss
4	's	's	PART	_	3 Serpent	case
5	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 tightened	aux
6	only	only	ADV	_	7 tightened	advmod
7	tightened	tighten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 sank	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 sank	cc
10	slowly	slowly	ADV	_	13 sank	advmod
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 Eagle	det
12	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sank	nsubj
13	sank	sink	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tightened	advcl
14	back	back	ADV	_	13 sank	advmod
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 earth	case
16	earth	earth	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 sank	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 gasping	punct
18	gasping	gasp	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 sank	advcl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 breath	case
20	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 gasping	obl
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	tighten	present			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
2	sink back	past	the Eagle	to earth; slowly property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	gasp	gerund	the Eagle not said here	for breath	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for breath=Recipient

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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