Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 79

THE GEESE and the Cranes were feeding in the same meadow, when a birdcatcher came to ensnare them in his nets.

Who acts: GEESE, birdcatcher · What happens: feed, come, ensnare · To what, where: same meadow, Geese, nets

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 (GEESE, birdcatcher), 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 GEESE	det
2	GEESE	goose	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 feeding	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	5 Cranes	cc
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Cranes	det
5	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 GEESE	conj
6	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feeding	aux
7	feeding	feed	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 meadow	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 meadow	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 meadow	amod
11	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 feeding	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 came	punct
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 came	mark
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 birdcatcher	det
15	birdcatcher	birdcatcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 came	nsubj
16	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 feeding	conj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 ensnare	mark
18	ensnare	ensnare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 came	xcomp
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 ensnare	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	22 nets	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 nets	nmod:poss
22	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 ensnare	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 feeding	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	feed	past · progressive	the GEESE and the Cranes		the same meadow	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in meadow=Location
2	come	past	a birdcatcher			tree rules
3	ensnare	to-infinitive	a birdcatcher not said here	Geese = goose	birdcatcher's nets	vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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