Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 114

The Owl came forth from her hollow, seized her, and put her to death.

Who acts: Owl · What happens: come, seize, put · To what, where: hollow, Owl

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 (Owl), 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 Owl	det
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	forth	forth	ADV	_	3 came	advmod
5	from	from	ADP	_	7 hollow	case
6	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 hollow	nmod:poss
7	hollow	hollow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 came	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 seized	punct
9	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	parataxis
10	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 seized	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 put	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 put	cc
13	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 seized	conj
14	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 put	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 death	case
16	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 put	obl
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Owl			Owl's hollow	forth property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from hollow=Initial_Location
2	seize	past		Owl				vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
3	put	infinitive			Owl		to death	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent she=Goal

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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