Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 108
A swarm of hungry blood-sucking flies settled upon him.
Who acts: swarm · What happens: suck, settle
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (swarm), 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 swarm | det |
| 2 | swarm | swarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 settled | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 flies | case |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 flies | amod |
| 5 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sucking | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 blood | punct |
| 7 | sucking | suck | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 flies | amod |
| 8 | flies | fly | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 swarm | nmod |
| 9 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 settled | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 settled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | suck | gerund | vn chew-39.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | settle | past | a swarm of hungry sucking flies | upon Fox | vn correspond-36.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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