Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 80

The Cranes, being light of wing, fled away at his approach; while the Geese, being slower of flight and heavier in their bodies, were captured.

Who acts: Cranes, Geese, birdcatcher · What happens: be, flee away, capture, approach · To what, where: light, approach, bodies, Geese

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 (Cranes, 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 Cranes	det
2	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	9 fled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 light	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 light	cop
5	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cranes	appos
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 wing	case
7	wing	wing	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 light	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cranes	punct
9	fled	flee	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	away	away	ADV	_	9 fled	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	13 approach	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 approach	nmod:poss
13	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 fled	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	30 captured	punct
15	while	while	SCONJ	_	30 captured	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Geese	det
17	Geese	Goose	PROPN	Number=Plur	30 captured	nsubj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 slower	punct
19	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 slower	cop
20	slower	slow	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 Geese	acl:relcl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 flight	case
22	flight	flight	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 slower	obl
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 heavier	cc
24	heavier	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	20 slower	conj
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 bodies	case
26	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 bodies	nmod:poss
27	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 heavier	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 Geese	punct
29	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 captured	aux:pass
30	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 fled	conj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 fled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	gerund		light		of wing	tree rules
2	flee away	past	the Cranes		birdcatcher's approach	away property	vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	gerund	the Geese not said here			of flight; slow property	tree rules
4	be		the Geese not said here		Geese's bodies		tree rules
5	capture	past · passive		the Geese			vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
6	approach		birdcatcher				nom approach «act intransitive»: 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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