Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 16

She said acorns would produce mistletoe, from which an irremediable poison, the bird-lime, would be extracted and by which they would be captured.

Who acts: bird, acorns · What happens: say, produce, extract, capture · To what, where: mistletoe, irremediable poison, poison · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, acorns), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	acorns	acorn	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 produce	nsubj
4	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	5 produce	aux
5	produce	produce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 said	ccomp
6	mistletoe	mistletoe	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 produce	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 extracted	punct
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 which	case
9	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 extracted	obl
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 poison	det
11	irremediable	irremediable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 poison	amod
12	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 extracted	nsubj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 lime	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 lime	det
15	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 lime	compound
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 bird	punct
17	lime	lime	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 poison	conj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 poison	punct
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 extracted	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 extracted	aux:pass
21	extracted	extract	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 produce	parataxis
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 captured	cc
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 which	case
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 captured	obl
25	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 captured	nsubj:pass
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 captured	aux
27	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 captured	aux:pass
28	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	21 extracted	conj
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	bird		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	produce	would	acorns	mistletoe	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistletoe=Result
3	extract	would · passive		a irremediable poison and the bird lime	vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Theme from which=Initial_Location
4	capture	would · passive		poison	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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