Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 69
AN EAGLE, flying down from his perch on a lofty rock, seized upon a lamb and carried him aloft in his talons.
Who acts: AN EAGLE · What happens: fly down, seize, carry · To what, where: perch, eagle
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 (AN EAGLE), 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 EAGLE | amod |
| 2 | EAGLE | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 flying | punct |
| 4 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 EAGLE | acl |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 flying | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 perch | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 perch | nmod:poss |
| 8 | perch | perch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 rock | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 rock | det |
| 11 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 rock | amod |
| 12 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 flying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 seized | punct |
| 14 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 EAGLE | parataxis |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 lamb | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 lamb | det |
| 17 | lamb | lamb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 seized | obl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 carried | cc |
| 19 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 seized | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 carried | obj |
| 21 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 carried | xcomp |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 talons | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 talons | nmod:poss |
| 24 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 aloft | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 EAGLE | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly down | gerund | AN EAGLE not said here | eagle's perch | on a lofty rock; down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on rock=Location | |||
| 2 | seize | participle | upon a lamb | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | carry | past | eagle | aloft property | vn carry-11.4 «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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