The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 6
Next year the Eagle built her nest far up on a mountain crag; but the Beetle found it and again destroyed the eggs.
Who acts: Eagle, Beetle · What happens: build, find, destroy · To what, where: nest, mountain crag, eggs
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, 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 year | amod |
| 2 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Eagle | det |
| 4 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 built | nsubj |
| 5 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 nest | nmod:poss |
| 7 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obj |
| 8 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 up | advmod |
| 9 | up | up | ADV | _ | 5 built | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 crag | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 crag | det |
| 12 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 crag | compound |
| 13 | crag | crag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 built | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 15 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 18 found | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Beetle | det |
| 17 | Beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 built | parataxis |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 found | obj |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 destroyed | cc |
| 21 | again | again | ADV | _ | 22 destroyed | advmod |
| 22 | destroyed | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 found | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eggs | det |
| 24 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 destroyed | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Eagle | Eagle's nest | a mountain crag | year | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent nest=Theme on crag=Source | ||
| 2 | find | past | the Beetle | nest | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 3 | destroy | past | the Beetle not said here | the eggs | again | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient |
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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