Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 117
Seeing a thrush sitting upon a tree, he wished to take it, and fitting his twigs to a proper length, watched intently, having his whole thoughts directed towards the sky.
Who acts: Viper, thrush, whole thoughts · What happens: see, sit, wish, take, fit, watch · To what, where: thrush, tree, twigs, proper length
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 (Viper, thrush, whole thoughts), 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 | Seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 wished | advcl |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 thrush | det |
| 3 | thrush | thrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Seeing | obj |
| 4 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 thrush | acl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sitting | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Seeing | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 wished | nsubj |
| 10 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 take | mark |
| 12 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 wished | xcomp |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 take | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fitting | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 fitting | cc |
| 16 | fitting | fit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 wished | advcl |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 twigs | nmod:poss |
| 18 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 fitting | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 length | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 length | det |
| 21 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 length | amod |
| 22 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fitting | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 watched | punct |
| 24 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 wished | advcl |
| 25 | intently | intently | ADV | _ | 24 watched | advmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 having | punct |
| 27 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 watched | advcl |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 thoughts | nmod:poss |
| 29 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 thoughts | amod |
| 30 | thoughts | thought | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 directed | nsubj |
| 31 | directed | direct | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 having | parataxis |
| 32 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 34 sky | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 sky | det |
| 34 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 directed | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | Viper not said here | a thrush | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thrush=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | sit | gerund | a thrush not said here | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | wish | past | Viper | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | Viper not said here | thrush | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fit | gerund | Viper not said here | Viper's twigs | to a proper length goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent twig=Patient to length=Goal | |||
| 6 | watch | past | Viper not said here | intently property | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | have | gerund | Viper not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | direct | past | Viper's whole thoughts | towards the sky | vn performance-26.7 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 9 | think | Viper | nom thought «cognition 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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