Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 7

Having thus frightened the Eagle out of her senses, she crept down to the cave of the Sow, and said, “Your children are in great danger; for as soon as you go out with your litter to find food, the Eagle is prepared to pounce upon one of your little pigs.”

Who acts: Having, Cat, children, you, Eagle · What happens: have, frighten, creep down, say, be, go out · To what, where: Eagle, senses, cave, great danger, food · 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 (Having, Cat, children, you), 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	Having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 frightened	csubj
2	thus	thus	ADV	_	1 Having	advmod
3	frightened	frighten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Eagle	det
5	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 frightened	obj
6	out	out	ADP	_	9 senses	case
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 senses	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 senses	nmod:poss
9	senses	sens	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 frightened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 crept	punct
11	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 crept	nsubj
12	crept	creep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	conj
13	down	down	ADV	_	12 crept	advmod
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 cave	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 cave	det
16	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 crept	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 Sow	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 Sow	det
19	Sow	Sow	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 cave	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 said	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 frightened	parataxis
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 danger	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 danger	punct
25	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 children	nmod:poss
26	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 danger	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 danger	cop
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 danger	case
29	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 danger	amod
30	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 said	ccomp
31	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 go	punct
32	for	for	ADP	_	34 soon	case
33	as	as	ADV	_	34 soon	advmod
34	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 go	obl
35	as	as	SCONJ	_	37 go	mark
36	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	37 go	nsubj
37	go	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	conj
38	out	out	ADV	_	37 go	advmod
39	with	with	ADP	_	41 litter	case
40	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 litter	nmod:poss
41	litter	litter	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 go	obl
42	to	to	PART	_	43 find	mark
43	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 go	advcl
44	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 find	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 prepared	punct
46	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 Eagle	det
47	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	49 prepared	nsubj
48	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	49 prepared	cop
49	prepared	prepared	ADJ	Degree=Pos	44 food	amod
50	to	to	PART	_	51 pounce	mark
51	pounce	pounce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	49 prepared	xcomp
52	upon	upon	ADP	_	53 one	case
53	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	51 pounce	obl
54	of	of	ADP	_	57 pigs	case
55	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 pigs	nmod:poss
56	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 pigs	amod
57	pigs	pig	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 one	nmod
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 frightened	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 frightened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	gerund				thus property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	frighten	past	Having	the Eagle	Cat's senses		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus eagle=Experiencer
3	creep down	past	Cat		the cave of the Sow	down property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to cave=Destination
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	Your children		great danger		tree rules
6	go out in a quote	present	you			with your litter; out property	vn interact-36.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with litter=Co-Agent
7	find in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	food			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Topic
8	is in a quote	present	the Eagle			prepared property	tree rules
9	pounce in a quote	to-infinitive	the Eagle not said here			upon one of your little pigs	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon one=Trajectory

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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