Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 35

The rustic, ignorant of his danger, was about to drink, when the Eagle struck his hand with his wing, and, seizing the drinking horn in his talons, carried it aloft.

Who acts: rustic ignorant, Eagle · What happens: be, drink, strike, seize, carry · To what, where: hand, drinking horn, talons, horn

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 (rustic ignorant, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 ignorant	det
2	rustic	rustic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 ignorant	amod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 rustic	punct
4	ignorant	ignorant	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 about	nsubj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 danger	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 danger	nmod:poss
7	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 ignorant	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 ignorant	punct
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 about	cop
10	about	about	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 drink	mark
12	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 about	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 struck	punct
14	when	when	SCONJ	_	17 struck	mark
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Eagle	det
16	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 struck	nsubj
17	struck	strike	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 about	conj
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 hand	nmod:poss
19	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	obj
20	with	with	ADP	_	22 wing	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wing	nmod:poss
22	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 struck	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 carried	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 carried	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seizing	punct
26	seizing	seize	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 carried	ccomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 horn	det
28	drinking	drinking	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 horn	compound
29	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 seizing	obj
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 talons	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 talons	nmod:poss
32	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 horn	nmod
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 seizing	punct
34	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 about	parataxis
35	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 carried	obj
36	aloft	aloft	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 carried	xcomp
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 about	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the rustic ignorant of countryman's danger			about property	tree rules
2	drink	to-infinitive	the rustic ignorant of countryman's danger not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	strike	past	the Eagle	countryman's hand		with countryman's wing	vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with wing=Instrument
4	seize	gerund		the drinking horn	countryman's talons		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Theme
5	carry	past		horn		aloft property	tree rules

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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