Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 57
A Fowler observed her staying so long in one spot, and having well bird-limed his reeds, caught her.
Who acts: Fowler · What happens: observe, stay, have, lime, catch · To what, where: lamb, one spot, reeds
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 (Fowler), 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 Fowler | det |
| 2 | Fowler | fowler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 observed | obj |
| 5 | staying | stay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 observed | advcl |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 7 long | advmod |
| 7 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 staying | advmod |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spot | case |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 spot | nummod |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 staying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 having | cc |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 staying | conj |
| 14 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 having | advmod |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 limed | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 bird | punct |
| 17 | limed | lime | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 having | xcomp |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 reeds | nmod:poss |
| 19 | reeds | reed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 limed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 caught | punct |
| 21 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 observed | conj |
| 22 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 caught | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | a Fowler | lamb | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent she=Topic | ||||
| 2 | stay | gerund | a Fowler not said here | one spot | long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in spot=Location | |||
| 3 | have | gerund | a Fowler not said here | well property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | lime | participle | a Fowler not said here | Tree's reeds | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | catch | past | a Fowler not said here | lamb | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=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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