Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 80
A just retribution, however, quickly fell upon the Eagle.
Who acts: retribution · What happens: fall
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 (retribution), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 retribution | det |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 3 retribution | advmod |
| 3 | retribution | retribution | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 retribution | punct |
| 5 | however | however | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 however | punct |
| 7 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 8 fell | advmod |
| 8 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 Eagle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Eagle | det |
| 11 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 fell | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fall | past | a retribution | upon the Eagle; however, quickly property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon eagle=Location |
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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