Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 62

The remaining birds at once forsook his fields, crying to each other, “It is time for us to be off to Liliput: for this man is no longer content to scare us, but begins to show us in earnest what he can do.”

Who acts: remaining birds, sling, man · What happens: forsake, cry, be, scare, begin, show · To what, where: fields, each, time, us, earnest · 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 (remaining birds, sling, man), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 birds	det
2	remaining	remaining	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 birds	amod
3	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forsook	nsubj
4	at	at	ADP	_	5 once	case
5	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 forsook	obl
6	forsook	forsake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 fields	nmod:poss
8	fields	field	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 forsook	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 crying	punct
10	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 forsook	advcl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 each	case
12	each	each	DET	ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp	10 crying	obl
13	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 each	fixed
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 time	punct
16	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 time	nsubj
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 time	cop
18	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 forsook	obl
19	for	for	ADP	_	20 us	case
20	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 time	nmod
21	to	to	PART	_	23 off	mark
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	23 off	cop
23	off	off	ADP	_	18 time	compound:prt
24	to	to	ADP	_	25 Liliput	case
25	Liliput	Liliput	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 off	nmod
26	:	:	PUNCT	_	33 content	punct
27	for	for	SCONJ	_	33 content	mark
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 man	det
29	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 content	nsubj
30	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	33 content	cop
31	no	no	ADV	_	32 longer	advmod
32	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	33 content	advmod
33	content	content	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 forsook	parataxis
34	to	to	PART	_	35 scare	mark
35	scare	scare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 content	advcl
36	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 scare	obj
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 begins	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	39 begins	cc
39	begins	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 forsook	parataxis
40	to	to	PART	_	41 show	mark
41	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	39 begins	xcomp
42	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 show	iobj
43	in	in	ADP	_	44 earnest	case
44	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	41 show	obl
45	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	48 do	obj
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 do	nsubj
47	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 do	aux
48	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 show	ccomp
49	.	.	PUNCT	_	39 begins	punct
50	”	"	PUNCT	_	39 begins	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	forsake	past	the remaining birds	oxen's fields				tree rules
2	cry speech: express	gerund	the remaining birds not said here		each			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to each=Recipient
3	is a in a quote	present	sling	time			for us	tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	this man				content, long property	tree rules
5	scare in a quote	to-infinitive	this man not said here	us				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus we=Experiencer
6	begin in a quote	present						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	show in a quote	to-infinitive			us	earnest		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic
8	do in a quote	can	man					vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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