Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 113
The Grasshopper, who was thirsty, and pleased with the praise of her voice, eagerly flew up.
Who acts: Grasshopper · What happens: be, fly up, praise · To what, where: voice
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Grasshopper), 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 | 2 Grasshopper | det |
| 2 | Grasshopper | Grasshopper | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 thirsty | punct |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 thirsty | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thirsty | cop |
| 6 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Grasshopper | appos |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 pleased | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 pleased | cc |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thirsty | conj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 praise | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 praise | det |
| 12 | praise | praise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 pleased | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 voice | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 voice | nmod:poss |
| 15 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 praise | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grasshopper | punct |
| 17 | eagerly | eagerly | ADV | _ | 18 flew | advmod |
| 18 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 flew | compound:prt |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Grasshopper | thirsty property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Grasshopper not said here | with the praise of Owl's voice | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | fly up | past | the Grasshopper | eagerly property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | praise | Owl's voice | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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