The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 1
A Beetle once begged the Eagle to spare a Hare which had run to her for protection.
Who acts: Beetle · What happens: beg, spare, run · To what, where: Eagle, Hare, Beetle
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Beetle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beetle), 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 Beetle | det |
| 2 | Beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 begged | advmod |
| 4 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Eagle | det |
| 6 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 begged | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 spare | mark |
| 8 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 begged | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 Hare | det |
| 10 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 spare | obj |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 run | nsubj |
| 12 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 run | aux |
| 13 | run | run | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 begged | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 run | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 protection | case |
| 17 | protection | protection | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 run | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | a Beetle | the Eagle | once property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent eagle=Recipient | |||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | a Beetle not said here | a Hare | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent hare=Asset | ||||
| 3 | run | past · perfect | Beetle | for protection | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to she=Result |
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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