Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 32
A HARE pounced upon by an eagle sobbed very much and uttered cries like a child.
Who acts: HARE · What happens: pounce, sob, utter · To what, where: HARE, eagle, cries
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 (HARE), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 HARE | det |
| 2 | HARE | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 uttered | nsubj |
| 3 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 HARE | acl |
| 4 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 3 pounced | obl |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 eagle | case |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 eagle | det |
| 7 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pounced | obl |
| 8 | sobbed | sob | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 eagle | acl |
| 9 | very | very | ADV | _ | 10 much | advmod |
| 10 | much | much | ADV | _ | 8 sobbed | advmod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 uttered | cc |
| 12 | uttered | utter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 uttered | obj |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 child | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 child | det |
| 16 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 cries | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 uttered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pounce | participle | a HARE not said here | by a eagle | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by eagle=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | sob | participle | a eagle not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | utter speech: other | past | a HARE | cries | like a child | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cry=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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