Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 69

A Serpent gliding past the nest from its hole in the wall ate up the young unfledged nestlings.

Who acts: Serpent · What happens: glide, eat up · To what, where: hole, young unfledged nestlings

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 (Serpent), 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 Serpent	det
2	Serpent	serpent	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 ate	nsubj
3	gliding	glide	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Serpent	acl
4	past	past	ADP	_	6 nest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nest	det
6	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gliding	obl
7	from	from	ADP	_	9 hole	case
8	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 hole	nmod:poss
9	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gliding	obl
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 wall	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 wall	det
12	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 hole	nmod
13	ate	eat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	up	up	ADP	_	13 ate	compound:prt
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 nestlings	det
16	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nestlings	amod
17	unfledged	unfledged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 nestlings	amod
18	nestlings	nestling	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 ate	obj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 ate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	glide	gerund	a Serpent not said here			nest's hole in the wall		past the nest	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme past nest=Trajectory
2	eat up	past	a Serpent	the young unfledged nestlings					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nestling=Patient

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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