Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 120
A Hawk observed it, and, pouncing upon it with his talons, carried it aloft.
Who acts: Hawk · What happens: observe, pounce, carry · To what, where: water
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hawk), 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 Hawk | det |
| 2 | Hawk | Hawk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 observed | nsubj |
| 3 | observed | observe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 observed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 carried | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 carried | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 and | punct |
| 8 | pouncing | pounce | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 carried | advcl |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 it | case |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 pouncing | obl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 talons | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 talons | nmod:poss |
| 13 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pouncing | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 pouncing | punct |
| 15 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 observed | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 carried | obj |
| 17 | aloft | aloft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 carried | xcomp |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 observed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | past | a Hawk | water | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pounce | gerund | water | with acquaintance's talons | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon it=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | a Hawk not said here | water | aloft property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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