Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 39

AN EAGLE was once captured by a man, who immediately clipped his wings and put him into his poultry-yard with the other birds, at which treatment the Eagle was weighed down with grief.

Who acts: man · What happens: capture, clip, put, weigh down · To what, where: AN EAGLE, wings, man, Eagle, treatment

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 (man), 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	5 captured	nsubj:pass
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 captured	aux:pass
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 captured	advmod
5	captured	capture	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	8 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 man	det
8	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 captured	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 clipped	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 clipped	nsubj
11	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	12 clipped	advmod
12	clipped	clip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 man	acl:relcl
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wings	nmod:poss
14	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 clipped	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 put	cc
16	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 captured	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 put	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	22 yard	case
19	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 yard	nmod:poss
20	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yard	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 poultry	punct
22	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 put	obl
23	with	with	ADP	_	26 birds	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 birds	det
25	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 birds	amod
26	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 put	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 weighed	punct
28	at	at	ADP	_	30 treatment	case
29	which	which	DET	PronType=Int	30 treatment	det
30	treatment	treatment	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 weighed	obl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 Eagle	det
32	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 weighed	nsubj
33	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 weighed	aux:pass
34	weighed	weigh	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 captured	conj
35	down	down	ADP	_	34 weighed	compound:prt
36	with	with	ADP	_	37 grief	case
37	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 weighed	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 captured	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	capture	past · passive	a man	AN EAGLE			once property	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	clip	past	a man	man's wings			immediately property	vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient
3	put	infinitive	a man not said here		man		into man's poultry yard; with the other birds	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent he=Goal
4	weigh down	past · passive		the Eagle		which treatment	with grief	vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP PP.value»: subject=Theme at treatment=Value

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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