Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 83
There, in the sight of the Eagle, the Fox gobbled them up.
What happens: gobble up, sight · To what, where: eaglets, sight, Eagle
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: 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 12 gobbled | expl |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gobbled | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 sight | det |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gobbled | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Eagle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Eagle | det |
| 8 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Fox | det |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Eagle | appos |
| 12 | gobbled | gobble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 gobbled | obj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 gobbled | compound:prt |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gobbled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gobble up | past | eaglets = eaglet | the sight of the Eagle; there | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sight | the Eagle | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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