Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 82

A strong breeze soon fanned the spark into a flame, and the eaglets, as yet unfledged and helpless, were roasted in their nest and dropped down dead at the bottom of the tree.

Who acts: strong breeze · What happens: fan, unfledg, roast, drop down · To what, where: spark, flame, eaglets, bottom

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 (strong breeze), 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 breeze	det
2	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 breeze	amod
3	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fanned	nsubj
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 fanned	advmod
5	fanned	fan	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 spark	det
7	spark	spark	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fanned	obj
8	into	into	ADP	_	10 flame	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 flame	det
10	flame	flame	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 fanned	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 roasted	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 roasted	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 eaglets	det
14	eaglets	eaglet	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 roasted	nsubj:pass
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 unfledged	punct
16	as	as	SCONJ	_	18 unfledged	mark
17	yet	yet	ADV	_	18 unfledged	advmod
18	unfledged	unfledg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 eaglets	acl:relcl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 helpless	cc
20	helpless	helpless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 unfledged	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 eaglets	punct
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 roasted	aux:pass
23	roasted	roast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 fanned	parataxis
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 nest	case
25	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 nest	nmod:poss
26	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 roasted	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 dropped	cc
28	dropped	drop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 roasted	conj
29	down	down	ADP	_	28 dropped	compound:prt
30	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 dropped	xcomp
31	at	at	ADP	_	33 bottom	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 bottom	det
33	bottom	bottom	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 dropped	obl
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 tree	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 tree	det
36	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bottom	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 fanned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fan	past	a strong breeze	the spark	a flame		soon property	tree rules
2	unfledg	participle		the eaglets not said here		yet		tree rules
3	roast	past · passive		the eaglets			in eaglets's nest	vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient in nest=Instrument
4	drop down	past			the bottom of the tree		dead property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme at bottom=Trajectory

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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