Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 116
A FOWLER, taking his bird-lime and his twigs, went out to catch birds.
Who acts: FOWLER · What happens: take, go out, catch · To what, where: bird lime, birds
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 (FOWLER), 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 FOWLER | det |
| 2 | FOWLER | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 taking | punct |
| 4 | taking | take | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 FOWLER | acl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 lime | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lime | compound |
| 7 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 6 bird | punct |
| 8 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 taking | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 twigs | cc |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 twigs | nmod:poss |
| 11 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 lime | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 FOWLER | punct |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 catch | mark |
| 16 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 went | advcl |
| 17 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 catch | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | gerund | a FOWLER not said here | Viper's bird lime and Viper's twigs | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lime=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go out | past | a FOWLER | out property | vn interact-36.6 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | catch | to-infinitive | a FOWLER not said here | birds | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme |
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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