Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 77
The Eagle built her nest in the branches of a tall tree, while the Fox crept into the underwood and there produced her young.
Who acts: Eagle, Fox · What happens: build, creep, produce · To what, where: nest, branches, underwood, young
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 (Eagle, Fox), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 built | nsubj |
| 3 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 built | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 branches | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 branches | det |
| 8 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 built | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 11 | tall | tall | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 tree | amod |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 branches | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 crept | punct |
| 14 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 crept | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Fox | det |
| 16 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crept | nsubj |
| 17 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 built | parataxis |
| 18 | into | into | ADP | _ | 20 underwood | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 underwood | det |
| 20 | underwood | underwood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 crept | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 produced | cc |
| 22 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 produced | advmod |
| 23 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 crept | conj |
| 24 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 young | nmod:poss |
| 25 | young | young | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 produced | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | the Eagle | Fox's nest | the branches of a tall tree | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Product | |||
| 2 | creep | past | the Fox | the underwood | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into underwood=Destination | ||||
| 3 | produce | past | the Fox not said here | Fox's young | there | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent young=Result |
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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