Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 21
A CROW having stolen a bit of meat, perched in a tree and held it in her beak.
What happens: steal, perch, hold · To what, where: CROW, tree, beak
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 CROW | det |
| 2 | CROW | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 stolen | aux |
| 4 | stolen | steal | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 bit | det |
| 6 | bit | bit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 stolen | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 meat | case |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 bit | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 perched | punct |
| 10 | perched | perch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 stolen | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 tree | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 tree | det |
| 13 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 perched | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 held | cc |
| 15 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 stolen | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 held | obj |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 beak | case |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 beak | nmod:poss |
| 19 | beak | beak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 held | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 stolen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | steal | gerund · perfect · passive | a CROW | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary bit=Theme | |||||
| 2 | perch | participle | a tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in tree=Location | |||||
| 3 | hold | past | Crow | Dog's beak | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in beak=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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