Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 35
While the Sparrow was thus speaking, a hawk suddenly seized him and killed him.
Who acts: Sparrow, hawk · What happens: speak, seize, kill · To what, where: foot · 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 (Sparrow, hawk), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 6 speaking | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Sparrow | det |
| 3 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 speaking | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 speaking | aux |
| 5 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 6 speaking | advmod |
| 6 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 seized | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 speaking | punct |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 hawk | det |
| 9 | hawk | hawk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seized | nsubj |
| 10 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 11 seized | advmod |
| 11 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 seized | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 killed | cc |
| 14 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seized | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 killed | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 seized | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | speak speech: other | past · progressive | the Sparrow | thus property | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | seize | past | a hawk | foot | suddenly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | past | a hawk not said here | foot | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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