Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 71

He flew around with a great whir of his wings and settled upon a large ram, with the intention of carrying him off, but his claws became entangled in the ram’s fleece and he was not able to release himself, although he fluttered with his feathers as much as he could.

Who acts: Jackdaw, intention, wings · What happens: fly around, settle, carry off, entangle, not be, release · To what, where: Jackdaw, claws, much

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 (Jackdaw, intention, wings), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 flew	nsubj
2	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	around	around	ADV	_	2 flew	advmod
4	with	with	ADP	_	7 whir	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 whir	det
6	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 whir	amod
7	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 flew	obl
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 wings	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 wings	nmod:poss
10	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 whir	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 settled	cc
12	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
13	upon	upon	ADP	_	16 ram	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 ram	det
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 ram	amod
16	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 settled	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 intention	punct
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 intention	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 intention	det
20	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 settled	obl
21	of	of	SCONJ	_	22 carrying	mark
22	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 intention	acl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 carrying	obj
24	off	off	ADP	_	22 carrying	compound:prt
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 entangled	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	30 entangled	cc
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 claws	nmod:poss
28	claws	claw	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 entangled	nsubj
29	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 entangled	aux:pass
30	entangled	entangle	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 flew	conj
31	in	in	ADP	_	35 fleece	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 ram	det
33	ram	ram	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 fleece	nmod:poss
34	’s	's	PART	_	33 ram	case
35	fleece	fleece	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 entangled	obl
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 able	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 able	nsubj
38	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 able	cop
39	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	40 able	advmod
40	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 entangled	conj
41	to	to	PART	_	42 release	mark
42	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 able	xcomp
43	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	42 release	obj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 fluttered	punct
45	although	although	SCONJ	_	47 fluttered	mark
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 fluttered	nsubj
47	fluttered	flutter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 flew	conj
48	with	with	ADP	_	50 feathers	case
49	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 feathers	nmod:poss
50	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 fluttered	obl
51	as	as	ADV	_	52 much	advmod
52	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 fluttered	obj
53	as	as	SCONJ	_	55 could	mark
54	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 could	nsubj
55	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 much	advcl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	fly around	past	Jackdaw		with a great whir of Jackdaw's wings; around property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	settle	past	Jackdaw not said here		upon a large ram; with the intention	vn odge-46-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with intention=Location
3	carry off	gerund	the intention not said here	Jackdaw		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	entangle	past · passive		Jackdaw's claws	in the ram's fleece	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination in fleece=Theme
5	not is	past	Jackdaw		able property	tree rules
6	release	to-infinitive	Jackdaw not said here	Jackdaw		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer himself=Source
7	flutter	past	Jackdaw	much	with Jackdaw's feathers	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location much=Theme
8	whir		Jackdaw's wings			nom whir «event intransitive»: of=agent

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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