Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 33
A countryman saw them, and running up, loosed the coil of the Serpent and let the Eagle go free.
Who acts: countryman, Eagle · What happens: see, run up, loose, let, go · To what, where: Serpent, coil, Eagle
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 (countryman, Eagle), 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 countryman | det |
| 2 | countryman | countryman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 saw | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 loosed | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 loosed | cc |
| 7 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 loosed | advcl |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 running | compound:prt |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 running | punct |
| 10 | loosed | loose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | parataxis |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 coil | det |
| 12 | coil | coil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 loosed | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Serpent | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Serpent | det |
| 15 | Serpent | serpent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 coil | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 loosed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Eagle | det |
| 19 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 let | obj |
| 20 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 21 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 go | xcomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a countryman | Serpent | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | run up | gerund | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | loose | past | the coil of the Serpent | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent coil=Patient | |||||
| 4 | let | infinitive | the Eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | the Eagle not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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