The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 2
But the Eagle pounced upon her prey, the sweep of her great wings tumbling the Beetle a dozen feet away.
Who acts: Eagle, sweep · What happens: pounce, tumble · To what, where: prey, 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 (Eagle, sweep), 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 | _ | 4 pounced | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pounced | nsubj |
| 4 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 prey | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 prey | nmod:poss |
| 7 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 pounced | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 sweep | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sweep | det |
| 10 | sweep | sweep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 prey | appos |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 wings | case |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wings | nmod:poss |
| 13 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wings | amod |
| 14 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 sweep | nmod |
| 15 | tumbling | tumble | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 sweep | acl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Beetle | det |
| 17 | Beetle | Beetle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 tumbling | obj |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 dozen | det |
| 19 | dozen | dozen | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 feet | nummod |
| 20 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 away | obl:unmarked |
| 21 | away | away | ADV | _ | 4 pounced | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounce | past | the Eagle | Eagle's prey | away property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon prey=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | tumble | gerund | the sweep of Eagle's great wings not said here | the Beetle | vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location beetle=Theme |
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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