Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 26

“I will teach you to fly then,” said the Eagle; and taking her up in his talons he carried her almost to the clouds suddenly he let her go, and she fell on a lofty mountain, dashing her shell to pieces.

Who acts: Eagle, basking · What happens: teach, fly, say, take up, carry, let · To what, where: you, Eagle, talons, lofty mountain, shell · 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 teach	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 teach	aux
4	teach	teach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 teach	iobj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 fly	mark
7	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 teach	xcomp
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	7 fly	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct
10	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 teach	punct
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Eagle	det
13	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 said	nsubj
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	16 taking	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 taking	cc
16	taking	take	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	11 said	ccomp
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 taking	obj
18	up	up	ADP	_	16 taking	compound:prt
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 talons	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 talons	nmod:poss
21	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carried	obl
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	nsubj
23	carried	carry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taking	parataxis
24	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 carried	obj
25	almost	almost	ADV	_	28 clouds	advmod
26	to	to	ADP	_	28 clouds	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 clouds	det
28	clouds	cloud	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 carried	obl
29	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	31 let	advmod
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 let	nsubj
31	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 carried	advcl
32	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 let	obj
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 let	xcomp
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fell	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 fell	cc
36	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 fell	nsubj
37	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 carried	conj
38	on	on	ADP	_	41 mountain	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 mountain	det
40	lofty	lofty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 mountain	amod
41	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fell	obl
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 dashing	punct
43	dashing	dash	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	37 fell	advcl
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 shell	nmod:poss
45	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 dashing	obj
46	to	to	ADP	_	47 pieces	case
47	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 dashing	obl
48	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	teach speech: other in a quote	future	the Eagle = eagle		you				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic
2	fly in a quote	to-infinitive	the Eagle = eagle not said here				then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: assert	past	the Eagle						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	take up	gerund			Eagle				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument she=Destination
5	carry	past	basking	Eagle		basking's talons		to the clouds	vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to cloud=Destination
6	let	past	basking	Eagle				suddenly property	tree rules
7	go	infinitive	Eagle not said here						vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	fall	past	Eagle			a lofty mountain			vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on mountain=Location
9	dash	gerund	Eagle not said here	Eagle's shell				to pieces result	vn hit-18.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent shell=Patient to piece=Result

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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