Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 63
Seeing some travelers approaching, the Crow flew up into a tree, and perching herself on one of the branches, cawed as loudly as she could.
Who acts: Crow, Seeing · What happens: see, approach, fly up, perch, caw · To what, where: travelers, tree, horse
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 (Crow, Seeing), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 cawed | csubj:pass |
| 2 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 3 travelers | det |
| 3 | travelers | traveler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 4 | approaching | approach | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Seeing | conj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 flew | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Crow | det |
| 7 | Crow | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | nsubj |
| 8 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 approaching | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 flew | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 flew | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 perching | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 perching | cc |
| 15 | perching | perch | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Seeing | conj |
| 16 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 perching | obj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 one | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 perching | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 branches | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 branches | det |
| 21 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 one | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 cawed | punct |
| 23 | cawed | caw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 loudly | advmod |
| 25 | loudly | loudly | ADV | _ | 23 cawed | advmod |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 could | mark |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 could | nsubj |
| 28 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 loudly | advcl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 cawed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | some travelers | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer traveler=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | approach | gerund | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | fly up | past | the Crow | into a tree result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into tree=Result | ||||
| 4 | perch | gerund | horse | on one of the branches | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme on one=Destination | ||||
| 5 | caw | participle | Seeing | loudly property | vn animal_sounds-38 «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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