Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 37
A CROW perishing with thirst saw a pitcher, and hoping to find water, flew to it with delight.
Who acts: CROW · What happens: perish, see, hope, find, fly · To what, where: pitcher, water
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 (CROW), 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 CROW | det |
| 2 | CROW | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | perishing | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 CROW | acl |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 thirst | case |
| 5 | thirst | thirst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 perishing | obl |
| 6 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 pitcher | det |
| 8 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 saw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hoping | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 hoping | cc |
| 11 | hoping | hope | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 saw | advcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 hoping | xcomp |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 flew | punct |
| 16 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 saw | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 flew | obl |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 delight | case |
| 20 | delight | delight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 flew | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | gerund | a CROW not said here | with thirst | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | see | past | a CROW | a pitcher | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pitcher=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | hope | gerund | a CROW not said here | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | find not said to happen | to-infinitive | a CROW not said here | water | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent water=Topic | ||||
| 5 | fly | past | a CROW not said here | Pitcher | with delight | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to it=Destination |
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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