Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 24

An Eagle, hovering near, heard her lamentation and demanded what reward she would give him if he would take her aloft and float her in the air.

Who acts: Eagle, basking · What happens: hover, hear, demand, reward, give, take · To what, where: lamentation, basking, aloft, Eagle, air · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Eagle, basking), 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	An	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Eagle	det
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 heard	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hovering	punct
4	hovering	hover	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Eagle	acl
5	near	near	ADV	_	4 hovering	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Eagle	punct
7	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 lamentation	nmod:poss
9	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 heard	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 demanded	cc
11	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 heard	conj
12	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	13 reward	nsubj
13	reward	reward	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 demanded	ccomp
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	nsubj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 give	aux
16	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 reward	ccomp
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 give	iobj
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 take	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 take	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 take	aux
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 give	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 aloft	nmod:poss
23	aloft	aloft	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 take	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 float	cc
25	float	float	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 take	conj
26	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 float	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	29 air	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 air	det
29	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 float	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	hover	gerund	a Eagle not said here				near property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	hear	past	a Eagle	Eagle's lamentation				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lamentation=Stimulus
3	demand speech: request	past	a Eagle not said here					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	reward	present						tree rules
5	give	would	Eagle		basking			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
6	take a condition, not said to happen	would	basking	Eagle's aloft				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aloft=Theme
7	float	infinitive	basking not said here	Eagle		the air		vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent she=Theme in air=Trajectory
8	lament		Eagle					nom lamentation «communication transitive»: 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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