Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 47

Not supposing it to be only a picture, she flew towards it with a loud whir and unwittingly dashed against the signboard, jarring herself terribly.

Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: not suppose, be, fly, dash, jar · To what, where: goblet, picture, signboard, Pigeon

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 (Pigeon), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 supposing	advmod
2	supposing	suppose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 flew	advcl
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 supposing	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	8 picture	mark
5	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	8 picture	cop
6	only	only	ADV	_	8 picture	advmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 picture	det
8	picture	picture	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 supposing	advcl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 supposing	punct
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flew	nsubj
11	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	towards	towards	ADP	_	13 it	case
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 flew	obl
14	with	with	ADP	_	17 whir	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 whir	det
16	loud	loud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 whir	amod
17	whir	whir	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 flew	obl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 dashed	cc
19	unwittingly	unwittingly	ADV	_	20 dashed	advmod
20	dashed	dash	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 whir	conj
21	against	against	ADP	_	23 signboard	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 signboard	det
23	signboard	signboard	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 dashed	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 jarring	punct
25	jarring	jar	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 flew	conj
26	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	25 jarring	obj
27	terribly	terribly	ADV	_	25 jarring	advmod
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not suppose	gerund	Pigeon not said here	goblet			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
2	is a	to-infinitive	Pigeon not said here	a picture			tree rules
3	fly	past	Pigeon		goblet	with a loud whir	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards it=Destination
4	dash	participle	Pigeon not said here		the signboard	unwittingly property	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme against signboard=Trajectory
5	jar	gerund	Pigeon not said here	Pigeon		terribly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer

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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