Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 61
The Beetle got by stealth at the Eagle’s eggs, and rolled them out of the nest, and followed the Eagle even into the presence of Jupiter.
Who acts: Beetle · What happens: get, roll, follow · To what, where: eggs, Eagle, nest, presence
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 (Beetle), 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 Beetle | det |
| 2 | Beetle | beetle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | nsubj |
| 3 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 5 stealth | case |
| 5 | stealth | stealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 got | obl |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 eggs | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Eagle | det |
| 8 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 8 Eagle | case |
| 10 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 rolled | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 rolled | cc |
| 13 | rolled | roll | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | parataxis |
| 14 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 rolled | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 nest | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 nest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 nest | det |
| 18 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 rolled | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 followed | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 followed | cc |
| 21 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 got | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Eagle | det |
| 23 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 followed | obj |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 27 presence | advmod |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 presence | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 presence | det |
| 27 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 followed | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 Jupiter | case |
| 29 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 presence | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | the Beetle | the Eagle's eggs | by stealth | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | roll | past | Eagle | the nest | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent they=Theme out nest=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | the Beetle not said here | the Eagle | the presence of Jupiter | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent eagle=Theme into presence=Trajectory |
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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