Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 5

To carry out her design, she climbed to the nest of the Eagle, and said, “Destruction is preparing for you, and for me too, unfortunately.

Who acts: Cat, Destruction · What happens: carry out, climb, say, prepare, design · To what, where: design, nest · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Cat, Destruction), 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	To	to	PART	_	2 carry	mark
2	carry	carry	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 carry	compound:prt
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 design	nmod:poss
5	design	design	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 carry	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 climbed	punct
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 climbed	nsubj
8	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 carry	advcl
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 nest	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nest	det
11	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 climbed	obl
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 Eagle	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Eagle	det
14	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 nest	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 said	cc
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 climbed	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 preparing	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	22 preparing	punct
20	Destruction	destruction	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 preparing	nsubj
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 preparing	aux
22	preparing	prepare	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 said	ccomp
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 you	case
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 preparing	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 me	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 me	cc
27	for	for	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 carry	obl
29	too	too	ADV	_	2 carry	advmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 unfortunately	punct
31	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	_	2 carry	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 carry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	carry out	to-infinitive		Cat's design		for me; unfortunately property	vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent design=Eventuality
2	climb	past	Cat		the nest of the Eagle		vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to nest=Destination
3	say speech: assert	past	Cat not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	prepare in a quote	present · progressive	Destruction			for you	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for you=Beneficiary
5	design		Cat				nom design «act transitive»: poss=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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