Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 10

Meanwhile, the Eagle, full of fear of the Sow, sat still on the branches, and the Sow, terrified by the Eagle, did not dare to go out from her cave.

Who acts: Eagle, Sow · What happens: sit, not dare, not go out, fear · To what, where: branches, cave, Sow

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, Sow), 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	Meanwhile	meanwhile	ADV	_	13 sat	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Meanwhile	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Eagle	det
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 sat	nsubj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 full	punct
6	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Eagle	amod
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 fear	case
8	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 full	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Sow	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Sow	det
11	Sow	Sow	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 fear	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Eagle	punct
13	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	still	still	ADV	_	13 sat	advmod
15	on	on	ADP	_	17 branches	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 branches	det
17	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 sat	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 dare	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 dare	cc
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Sow	det
21	Sow	Sow	PROPN	Number=Sing	30 dare	nsubj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 terrified	punct
23	terrified	terrified	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Sow	amod
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 Eagle	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 Eagle	det
26	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 terrified	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 Sow	punct
28	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 dare	aux
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 dare	advmod
30	dare	dare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 sat	advcl
31	to	to	PART	_	32 go	mark
32	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 dare	xcomp
33	out	out	ADV	_	32 go	advmod
34	from	from	ADP	_	36 cave	case
35	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 cave	nmod:poss
36	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 go	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	sit	past	the Eagle		the branches	still	meanwhile property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location
2	not dare	past · do-support	the Sow					vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	not go out	to-infinitive	the Sow not said here		Sow's cave		out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	fear			the Sow				nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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: «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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