Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 69
A HEN finding the eggs of a viper and carefully keeping them warm, nourished them into life.
Who acts: HEN · What happens: find, keep, nourish · To what, where: eggs, life
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 (HEN), 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 HEN | det |
| 2 | HEN | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | finding | find | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 HEN | acl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eggs | det |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 finding | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 viper | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 viper | det |
| 8 | viper | viper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 eggs | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 keeping | cc |
| 10 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 11 keeping | advmod |
| 11 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 finding | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 keeping | obj |
| 13 | warm | warm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 keeping | xcomp |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 nourished | punct |
| 15 | nourished | nourish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 keeping | conj |
| 16 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 nourished | obj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 life | case |
| 18 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 nourished | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 HEN | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | gerund | a HEN not said here | the eggs of a viper | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Topic | ||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | a HEN not said here | eggs = egg | carefully, warm property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 3 | nourish | participle | a HEN not said here | eggs = egg | life | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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