The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 11

And they say that ever after, while the Eagle's eggs lie in the nest in spring, the Beetle still sleeps in the ground.

Who acts: eggs, Beetle · What happens: say, lie, sleep · To what, where: nest, ground · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (eggs, 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 say	cc
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	6 after	mark
5	ever	ever	ADV	PronType=Ind	6 after	advmod
6	after	after	ADV	_	3 say	ccomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 lie	punct
8	while	while	SCONJ	_	13 lie	mark
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Eagle	det
10	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 eggs	nmod:poss
11	's	's	PART	_	10 Eagle	case
12	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lie	nsubj
13	lie	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 nest	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 nest	det
16	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lie	obl
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 spring	case
18	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lie	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sleeps	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Beetle	det
21	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 sleeps	nsubj
22	still	still	ADV	_	23 sleeps	advmod
23	sleeps	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	conj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 ground	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 ground	det
26	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 sleeps	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	eggs = egg			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	lie	present	the Eagle's eggs	the nest	spring	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in nest=Location
3	sleep	present	the Beetle	the ground	still	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in ground=Location

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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