Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 27
AN EAGLE, overwhelmed with sorrow, sat upon the branches of a tree in company with a Kite.
Who acts: AN EAGLE · What happens: overwhelm, sit · To what, where: AN EAGLE, company
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (AN EAGLE), 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 | AN | an | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 EAGLE | amod |
| 2 | EAGLE | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 overwhelmed | punct |
| 4 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 EAGLE | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sorrow | case |
| 6 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 overwhelmed | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 EAGLE | punct |
| 8 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 11 branches | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 branches | det |
| 11 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 sat | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 branches | nmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 company | case |
| 16 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 Kite | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Kite | det |
| 19 | Kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sat | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overwhelm | participle | AN EAGLE not said here | with sorrow | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | sit | past | AN EAGLE | company | upon the branches of a tree; with a Kite | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent upon branch=Location |
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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