Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 56
A THRUSH was feeding on a myrtle-tree and did not move from it because its berries were so delicious.
Who acts: THRUSH, berries · What happens: feed, not move, be · To what, where: Fowler
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (THRUSH, berries), 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 | 2 THRUSH | det |
| 2 | THRUSH | thrush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeding | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 feeding | aux |
| 4 | feeding | feed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 tree | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 7 | myrtle | myrtle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 tree | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 myrtle | punct |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 feeding | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 move | cc |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 move | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 move | advmod |
| 13 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 feeding | conj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 move | obl |
| 16 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 21 delicious | mark |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 berries | nmod:poss |
| 18 | berries | berry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 delicious | nsubj |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 delicious | cop |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 delicious | advmod |
| 21 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 move | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 feeding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feed | past · progressive | a THRUSH | on a myrtle tree | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on tree=Patient | ||||
| 2 | not move | past · do-support | a THRUSH not said here | Fowler | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Fowler's berries | delicious property | 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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