Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 35
The Kite, soaring aloft into the air, brought back the shabbiest possible mouse, stinking from the length of time it had lain about the fields.
Who acts: Kite, time · What happens: soar, bring back, stink, lie · To what, where: air, shabbiest possible mouse, length, mouse
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 (Kite, time), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Kite | det |
| 2 | Kite | kite | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 soaring | punct |
| 4 | soaring | soar | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Kite | acl |
| 5 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 soaring | xcomp |
| 6 | into | into | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 soaring | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Kite | punct |
| 10 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | back | back | ADV | _ | 10 brought | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 mouse | det |
| 13 | shabbiest | shabby | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 15 mouse | amod |
| 14 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 mouse | amod |
| 15 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 brought | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 stinking | punct |
| 17 | stinking | stink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 brought | advcl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 length | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 length | det |
| 20 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 stinking | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 time | case |
| 22 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 length | nmod |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 lain | nsubj:pass |
| 24 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lain | aux |
| 25 | lain | lie | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 time | acl:relcl |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 fields | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 fields | det |
| 28 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 lain | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | soar | gerund | the Kite not said here | the air | aloft property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into air=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | bring back | past | the Kite | the shabbiest possible mouse | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument mouse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | stink | gerund | the Kite not said here | the length of time | vn smell_emission-43.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | past · perfect · passive | time not said here | mouse | about the fields | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: subject=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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