Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 78
Not long after they had agreed upon this plan, the Eagle, being in want of provision for her young ones, swooped down while the Fox was out, seized upon one of the little cubs, and feasted herself and her brood.
Who acts: branches · What happens: agree, be, swoop down, seize, feast · To what, where: want, young ones, Fox
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 (branches), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
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The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 agreed | advmod |
| 3 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 6 agreed | mark |
| 4 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 agreed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 agreed | aux |
| 6 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 plan | case |
| 8 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 plan | det |
| 9 | plan | plan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Eagle | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Eagle | det |
| 12 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 plan | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 want | punct |
| 14 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 want | cop |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 want | case |
| 16 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 agreed | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 provision | case |
| 18 | provision | provision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 want | nmod |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 ones | case |
| 20 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 ones | nmod:poss |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ones | amod |
| 22 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 want | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 swooped | punct |
| 24 | swooped | swoop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 ones | acl |
| 25 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 swooped | compound:prt |
| 26 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 Fox | mark |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Fox | det |
| 28 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 swooped | advcl |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 want | cop |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 was | compound:prt |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 seized | punct |
| 32 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 agreed | parataxis |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 34 one | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 seized | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 cubs | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 cubs | det |
| 37 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 cubs | amod |
| 38 | cubs | cub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 one | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 feasted | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 feasted | cc |
| 41 | feasted | feast | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 seized | conj |
| 42 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 feasted | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 brood | cc |
| 44 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 brood | nmod:poss |
| 45 | brood | brood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 herself | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past · perfect | branches = branch | upon this plan; long property | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | gerund | want | of provision; for Fox's young ones | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | swoop down | participle | Fox's young ones not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | seize | participle | upon one of the little cubs | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | feast | past | Fox | tree rules |
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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