Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 68

A SWALLOW, returning from abroad and especially fond of dwelling with men, built herself a nest in the wall of a Court of Justice and there hatched seven young birds.

Who acts: SWALLOW · What happens: return, dwell, build, hatch · To what, where: Swallow, wall, seven young birds

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 (SWALLOW), 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 SWALLOW	det
2	SWALLOW	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 returning	punct
4	returning	return	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 SWALLOW	acl
5	from	from	ADP	_	6 abroad	case
6	abroad	abroad	ADV	_	4 returning	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 fond	cc
8	especially	especially	ADV	_	9 fond	advmod
9	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 returning	conj
10	of	of	SCONJ	_	11 dwelling	mark
11	dwelling	dwell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 fond	advcl
12	with	with	ADP	_	13 men	case
13	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 dwelling	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 SWALLOW	punct
15	built	build	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 built	obj
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 nest	det
18	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 wall	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 wall	det
21	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 built	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Court	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Court	det
24	Court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 wall	nmod
25	of	of	ADP	_	26 Justice	case
26	Justice	Justice	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 Court	nmod
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 hatched	cc
28	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	29 hatched	advmod
29	hatched	hatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 built	conj
30	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 birds	nummod
31	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 birds	amod
32	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 hatched	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 built	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	return	gerund	a SWALLOW not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from abroad=Initial_Location
2	dwell	gerund	a SWALLOW not said here			with men	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with man=Location
3	build	past	a SWALLOW	Swallow	the wall of a Court of Justice		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset herself=Beneficiary nest=Product
4	hatch	past	a SWALLOW not said here	seven young birds	there		vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent bird=Product

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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