Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 3
AN EAGLE made her nest at the top of a lofty oak; a Cat, having found a convenient hole, moved into the middle of the trunk; and a Wild Sow, with her young, took shelter in a hollow at its foot.
Who acts: AN EAGLE, Cat, Wild Sow · What happens: make, find, move, take · To what, where: nest, top, convenient hole, middle, shelter, hollow
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 (AN EAGLE, Cat, Wild 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 EAGLE | amod |
| 2 | EAGLE | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 top | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 top | det |
| 8 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 oak | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 oak | det |
| 11 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 oak | amod |
| 12 | oak | oak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 top | nmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 15 Cat | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Cat | det |
| 15 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 17 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 found | aux |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 Cat | acl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 hole | det |
| 20 | convenient | convenient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 hole | amod |
| 21 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 moved | punct |
| 23 | moved | move | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 hole | acl |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 middle | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 middle | det |
| 26 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 moved | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 trunk | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 trunk | det |
| 29 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 middle | nmod |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 40 took | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 took | cc |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 Sow | det |
| 33 | Wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 Sow | amod |
| 34 | Sow | Sow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 took | nsubj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 young | punct |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 young | case |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 young | nmod:poss |
| 38 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 Sow | appos |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 Sow | punct |
| 40 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 41 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 took | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 hollow | case |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 hollow | det |
| 44 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 took | obl |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 47 foot | case |
| 46 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 47 foot | nmod:poss |
| 47 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 hollow | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | AN EAGLE | Cat's nest | the top of a lofty oak | a Cat obl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product | ||
| 2 | find | gerund · perfect | a Cat not said here | a convenient hole | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hole=Topic | ||||
| 3 | move | participle | a convenient hole not said here | the middle of the trunk | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into middle=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | take | past | a Wild Sow | shelter | a hollow | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent shelter=Value in hollow=Location |
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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