Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 41
The Eagle took flight, and pouncing upon a hare, brought it at once as an offering to his benefactor.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: take, pounce, bring · To what, where: flight, benefactor
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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | flight | flight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 pouncing | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 pouncing | cc |
| 7 | pouncing | pounce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 took | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 hare | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 hare | det |
| 10 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pouncing | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 brought | punct |
| 12 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 brought | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 once | case |
| 15 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 12 brought | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 18 offering | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 offering | det |
| 18 | offering | offering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 benefactor | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 benefactor | nmod:poss |
| 21 | benefactor | benefactor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 brought | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Eagle | flight | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flight=Theme | ||||
| 2 | pounce | gerund | the Eagle not said here | upon a hare | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon hare=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | bring | past | the Eagle not said here | flight | hare's benefactor | as a offering | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to benefactor=Destination |
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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