Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 41
A RAVEN saw a Swan and desired to secure for himself the same beautiful plumage.
Who acts: RAVEN · What happens: see, desire, secure · To what, where: Swan, same beautiful plumage
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 (RAVEN), 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 RAVEN | det |
| 2 | RAVEN | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Swan | det |
| 5 | Swan | Swan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 desired | cc |
| 7 | desired | desire | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 saw | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 secure | mark |
| 9 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 desired | xcomp |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 secure | obl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 plumage | det |
| 13 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plumage | amod |
| 14 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 plumage | amod |
| 15 | plumage | plumage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 secure | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | a RAVEN | a Swan | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer swan=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | desire | participle | a RAVEN not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | secure not said to happen | to-infinitive | a RAVEN not said here | the same beautiful plumage | for Goat | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition plumage=Theme for himself=Beneficiary |
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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