Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 60

The Eagle gave the first provocation in seizing upon and in eating the young ones of the Beetle.

Who acts: Eagle · What happens: give, seize, eat · To what, where: first provocation, young ones

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 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 provocation	det
5	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	6 provocation	amod
6	provocation	provocation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
7	in	in	SCONJ	_	8 seizing	mark
8	seizing	seize	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 gave	advcl
9	upon	upon	ADP	_	8 seizing	advmod
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 eating	cc
11	in	in	SCONJ	_	12 eating	mark
12	eating	eat	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 seizing	conj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 ones	det
14	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 ones	amod
15	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 eating	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 Beetle	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Beetle	det
18	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 ones	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	give	past	the Eagle	the first provocation	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent provocation=Theme
2	seize	gerund	the Eagle not said here		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	eat	gerund	the Eagle not said here	the young ones of the Beetle	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient

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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