Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 31
A SERPENT and an Eagle were struggling with each other in deadly conflict.
Who acts: SERPENT · What happens: struggle · To what, where: deadly conflict
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 (SERPENT), 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 SERPENT | det |
| 2 | SERPENT | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggling | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Eagle | cc |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Eagle | det |
| 5 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 SERPENT | conj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 struggling | aux |
| 7 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 each | case |
| 9 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 7 struggling | obl |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 each | fixed |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 conflict | case |
| 12 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 conflict | amod |
| 13 | conflict | conflict | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 struggling | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 struggling | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past · progressive | a SERPENT and a Eagle | deadly conflict | with each | vn battle-36.4 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with each=Co-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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