Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 73

He at once clipped the Jackdaw’s wings, and taking him home at night, gave him to his children.

Who acts: shepherd · What happens: clip, take, give · To what, where: wings, shepherd

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 (shepherd), 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	4 clipped	nsubj
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 once	case
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 clipped	obl
4	clipped	clip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Jackdaw	det
6	Jackdaw	Jackdaw	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 wings	nmod:poss
7	’s	's	PART	_	6 Jackdaw	case
8	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 clipped	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 taking	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 taking	cc
11	taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 clipped	advcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 taking	obj
13	home	home	ADV	_	11 taking	advmod
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 night	case
15	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 taking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 gave	punct
17	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 clipped	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 gave	iobj
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 children	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 children	nmod:poss
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 gave	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 clipped	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	clip	past	shepherd	the Jackdaw's wings				vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
2	take	gerund	shepherd not said here		shepherd	night	home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination
3	give	past	shepherd not said here		shepherd		to shepherd's children	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Theme to child=Recipient

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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