The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 5
The Eagle's grief and anger knew no bounds, but who had done the cruel deed she did not know.
Who acts: grief, Beetle · What happens: know, do, not know · To what, where: bounds, cruel deed
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 (grief, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grief | nmod:poss |
| 3 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 2 Eagle | case |
| 4 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 anger | cc |
| 6 | anger | anger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 grief | conj |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 bounds | det |
| 9 | bounds | bound | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 knew | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 done | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 done | cc |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 done | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 done | aux |
| 14 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 knew | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 deed | det |
| 16 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deed | amod |
| 17 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 done | obj |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 know | nsubj |
| 19 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 know | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 know | advmod |
| 21 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 deed | acl:relcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Eagle's grief and anger | no bounds | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer bound=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | the cruel deed | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not know | past · do-support | Beetle | the cruel deed not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer deed=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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