Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 95
A CROW in great want of food saw a Serpent asleep in a sunny nook, and flying down, greedily seized him.
Who acts: CROW · What happens: see, fly down, seize, want · To what, where: sunny nook, pig, food
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 (CROW), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 CROW | det |
| 2 | CROW | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 want | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 want | amod |
| 5 | want | want | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 CROW | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 food | case |
| 7 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 want | nmod |
| 8 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 asleep | det |
| 10 | Serpent | Serpent | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 asleep | compound |
| 11 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 saw | xcomp |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 nook | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 nook | det |
| 14 | sunny | sunny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 nook | amod |
| 15 | nook | nook | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 saw | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 flying | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 flying | cc |
| 18 | flying | fly | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 saw | advcl |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 flying | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seized | punct |
| 21 | greedily | greedily | ADV | _ | 22 seized | advmod |
| 22 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 saw | conj |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seized | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a CROW in great want of food | a sunny nook | asleep property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | fly down | gerund | a CROW in great want of food not said here | down property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seize | past | a CROW in great want of food not said here | pig | greedily property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 4 | want | food | nom want «state transitive»: of=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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