Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 48
Having broken her wings by the blow, she fell to the ground, and was caught by one of the bystanders.
Who acts: Pigeon · What happens: have, break, fall, catch · To what, where: broken wings
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 | Having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 fell | advcl |
| 2 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 wings | amod |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 wings | nmod:poss |
| 4 | wings | wing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Having | obj |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 blow | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 blow | det |
| 7 | blow | blow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Having | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Having | punct |
| 9 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 fell | nsubj |
| 10 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 ground | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 ground | det |
| 13 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 fell | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 caught | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 caught | cc |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 caught | aux:pass |
| 17 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 fell | conj |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 one | case |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 caught | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 bystanders | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 bystanders | det |
| 22 | bystanders | bystander | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 one | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 fell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | Pigeon not said here | Pigeon's broken wings | by the blow | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | |||
| 2 | break | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | fall | past | Pigeon | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 4 | catch | past · passive | Pigeon not said here | by one of the bystanders | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP» |
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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