The Aesop for Children, The Serpent and the Eagle, sentence 6
In pity for the noble Eagle he rushed up and soon had loosened the coiling Serpent and freed the Eagle.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: rush up, loosen, coil, free · To what, where: pity, coiling Serpent, Eagle
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 pity | case |
| 2 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 rushed | obl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 Eagle | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Eagle | det |
| 5 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Eagle | amod |
| 6 | Eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 pity | nmod |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 rushed | nsubj |
| 8 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 rushed | compound:prt |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 loosened | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 loosened | advmod |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 loosened | aux |
| 13 | loosened | loosen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 rushed | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Serpent | det |
| 15 | coiling | coil | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 Serpent | amod |
| 16 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 loosened | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 freed | cc |
| 18 | freed | free | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 loosened | conj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Eagle | det |
| 20 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 freed | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush up | past | Eagle | pity for the noble Eagle | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pity=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | loosen | past · perfect | Eagle not said here | the coiling Serpent | soon property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent serpent=Patient | |||
| 3 | coil | gerund | vn coil-9.6-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | free | past | Eagle not said here | the Eagle | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer eagle=Source |
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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