Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 62
On the Eagle making his complaint, Jupiter ordered him to make his nest in his lap; and while Jupiter had the eggs in his lap, the Beetle came flying about him, and Jupiter rising up unawares, to drive him away from his head, threw down the eggs, and broke them.
Who acts: Eagle, Jupiter, Beetle · What happens: make, order, have, come, fly, rise up · To what, where: complaint, Beetle, nest, lap, eggs, unawares
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, Jupiter, 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 4 making | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Eagle | det |
| 3 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 making | nsubj |
| 4 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 ordered | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 complaint | nmod:poss |
| 6 | complaint | complaint | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 making | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 making | punct |
| 8 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 ordered | nsubj |
| 9 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 ordered | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 ordered | xcomp |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 nest | nmod:poss |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 lap | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 lap | nmod:poss |
| 17 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 had | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 had | cc |
| 20 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 22 had | mark |
| 21 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 had | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 ordered | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 eggs | det |
| 24 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 had | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 lap | case |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 lap | nmod:poss |
| 27 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 had | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 came | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Beetle | det |
| 30 | Beetle | Beetle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 came | nsubj |
| 31 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 had | conj |
| 32 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 came | xcomp |
| 33 | about | about | ADP | _ | 34 him | case |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 flying | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 rising | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 rising | cc |
| 37 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 38 rising | nsubj |
| 38 | rising | rise | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 came | advcl |
| 39 | up | up | ADP | _ | 38 rising | compound:prt |
| 40 | unawares | unaware | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 rising | obj |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 drive | punct |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 drive | mark |
| 43 | drive | drive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 rising | conj |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 drive | obj |
| 45 | away | away | ADV | _ | 43 drive | advmod |
| 46 | from | from | ADP | _ | 48 head | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 head | nmod:poss |
| 48 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 away | obl |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 threw | punct |
| 50 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 came | parataxis |
| 51 | down | down | ADP | _ | 50 threw | compound:prt |
| 52 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 eggs | det |
| 53 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 threw | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 broke | punct |
| 55 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 56 broke | cc |
| 56 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 50 threw | conj |
| 57 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 56 broke | obj |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | the Eagle | Beetle's complaint | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent complaint=Product | ||||
| 2 | order | past | Jupiter | Beetle | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Jupiter not said here | Beetle's nest | Beetle's lap | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product | |||
| 4 | have | past | Jupiter | the eggs | Beetle's lap | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient | |||
| 5 | come | past | the Beetle | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | fly | gerund | the Beetle not said here | about Beetle | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about he=Location | ||||
| 7 | rise up | gerund | Jupiter | unawares | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location unaware=Theme | ||||
| 8 | drive | to-infinitive | Jupiter not said here | Beetle | away property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 9 | throw down | past | the eggs | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme | |||||
| 10 | break | past | Eagle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Patient | |||||
| 11 | complain | Beetle | nom complaint «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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