Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 73
The Cock flying up, perched himself on the branches of a tree, while the Dog found a bed beneath in the hollow trunk.
Who acts: Cock, Dog · What happens: fly up, perch, find · To what, where: Cock, branches, bed, hollow trunk
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 (Cock, Dog), 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 Cock | det |
| 2 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 perched | nsubj |
| 3 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Cock | acl |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 flying | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Cock | punct |
| 6 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 6 perched | obj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 branches | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 branches | det |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 perched | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 branches | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 found | punct |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 18 found | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Dog | det |
| 17 | Dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | nsubj |
| 18 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 perched | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bed | det |
| 20 | bed | bed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obj |
| 21 | beneath | beneath | ADV | _ | 18 found | advmod |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 trunk | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 trunk | det |
| 24 | hollow | hollow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 trunk | amod |
| 25 | trunk | trunk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 found | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 perched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly up | gerund | the Cock not said here | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | perch | past | the Cock | Cock | the branches of a tree | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent himself=Theme on branch=Destination | |||
| 3 | find | past | the Dog | a bed | the hollow trunk | beneath property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bed=Topic |
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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