Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 32
“Well, I have often caught and carried away an ostrich in my talons.”
What happens: catch, carry away · To what, where: Kite, ostrich, talons
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 caught | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 caught | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 caught | aux |
| 6 | often | often | ADV | _ | 7 caught | advmod |
| 7 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 caught | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 carried | advmod |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 ostrich | det |
| 12 | ostrich | ostrich | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 talons | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 talons | nmod:poss |
| 15 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 carried | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Kite | often property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry away in a quote | participle | a ostrich | my talons | away property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent ostrich=Value in talon=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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