Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 18

And, lastly, the Owl, seeing an archer approach, predicted that this man, being on foot, would contrive darts armed with feathers which would fly faster than the wings of the Birds themselves.

Who acts: man, feathers · What happens: see, predict, be, contrive, fly · To what, where: archer approach, foot, darts

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 (man, feathers), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	13 predicted	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lastly	punct
3	lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 predicted	advcl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Owl	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Owl	det
6	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 lastly	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 seeing	punct
8	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 lastly	advcl
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 approach	det
10	archer	archer	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 approach	compound
11	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 seeing	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 predicted	punct
13	predicted	predict	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 contrive	mark
15	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 man	det
16	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 contrive	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 foot	punct
18	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 foot	cop
19	on	on	ADP	_	20 foot	case
20	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 man	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 man	punct
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 contrive	aux
23	contrive	contrive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 predicted	ccomp
24	darts	dart	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 contrive	obj
25	armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 contrive	xcomp
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 feathers	case
27	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 contrive	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 fly	nsubj
29	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	30 fly	aux
30	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 feathers	acl:relcl
31	faster	fast	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 fly	advmod
32	than	than	ADP	_	34 wings	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 wings	det
34	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 faster	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 Birds	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 Birds	det
37	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	34 wings	nmod
38	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	37 Birds	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 predicted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	gerund		a archer approach			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer approach=Stimulus
2	predict	past					vn indicate-78 «NP V how S»: agent=Pivot clause=Topic
3	is	gerund	this man and foot not said here		foot		tree rules
4	contrive	would	this man and foot	darts		with feathers; armed property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Result
5	fly	would	feathers			fast property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=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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