Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 81

While hovering near an altar, on which some villagers were sacrificing a goat, she suddenly seized a piece of the flesh, and carried it, along with a burning cinder, to her nest.

Who acts: goat, villagers · What happens: hover, sacrifice, seize, carry, burn · To what, where: altar, goat, piece

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 (goat, villagers), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	2 hovering	mark
2	hovering	hover	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 seized	advcl
3	near	near	ADP	_	5 altar	case
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 altar	det
5	altar	altar	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 hovering	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 sacrificing	punct
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 which	case
8	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 sacrificing	obl
9	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	10 villagers	det
10	villagers	villager	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 sacrificing	nsubj
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 sacrificing	aux
12	sacrificing	sacrifice	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 hovering	conj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 goat	det
14	goat	goat	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 sacrificing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 hovering	punct
16	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 seized	nsubj
17	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	18 seized	advmod
18	seized	seize	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 piece	det
20	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 seized	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 flesh	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 flesh	det
23	flesh	flesh	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 piece	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 carried	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 carried	cc
26	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 seized	conj
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 carried	obj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 cinder	punct
29	along	along	ADP	_	33 cinder	case
30	with	with	ADP	_	33 cinder	case
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 cinder	det
32	burning	burn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 cinder	amod
33	cinder	cinder	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 carried	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 nest	punct
35	to	to	ADP	_	37 nest	case
36	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 nest	nmod:poss
37	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 cinder	conj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 seized	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	hover	gerund	goat not said here		a altar		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near altar=Location
2	sacrifice	past · progressive	some villagers	a goat			vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent goat=Theme
3	seize	past	goat	a piece of the flesh		suddenly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme
4	carry	past	goat not said here	piece			vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
5	burn	gerund					vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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