The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 5

A Countryman chanced to see the unequal combat.

What happens: chance, see · To what, where: Countryman, unequal combat

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: 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Countryman	det
2	Countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	chanced	chance	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Countryman	acl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 see	mark
5	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 chanced	xcomp
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 combat	det
7	unequal	unequal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 combat	amod
8	combat	combat	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 see	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Countryman	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	participle		a Countryman not said here					vn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	see	to-infinitive		the unequal combat					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer combat=Stimulus

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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