Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 20
An Eagle sailing through the air pounced upon him and carried him off in his talons.
Who acts: Eagle · What happens: sail, pounce, carry off · To what, where: air, One, talons
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 (Eagle), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pounced | nsubj |
| 3 | sailing | sail | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Eagle | acl |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 air | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 air | det |
| 6 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sailing | obl |
| 7 | pounced | pounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 pounced | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 carried | cc |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 pounced | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 carried | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 talons | case |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 talons | nmod:poss |
| 16 | talons | talon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 pounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sail | gerund | a Eagle not said here | the air | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent through air=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | pounce | past | a Eagle | upon One | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | carry off | past | a Eagle not said here | One | One's talons | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Value in talon=Location |
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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