Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 71
AN EAGLE sat on a lofty rock, watching the movements of a Hare whom he sought to make his prey.
Who acts: EAGLE, Hare · What happens: sit, watch, seek, make, move · To what, where: lofty rock, movements, prey, Hare
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: who acts (EAGLE, Hare), 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 | 3 sat | nsubj |
| 3 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 rock | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rock | det |
| 6 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rock | amod |
| 7 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sat | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 watching | punct |
| 9 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sat | advcl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 movements | det |
| 11 | movements | movement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 watching | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Hare | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Hare | det |
| 14 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 movements | nmod |
| 15 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 sought | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sought | nsubj |
| 17 | sought | seek | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 movements | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sought | xcomp |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 prey | nmod:poss |
| 21 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sit | past | a EAGLE | a lofty rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 2 | watch | gerund | a EAGLE not said here | the movements of a Hare | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | past | Hare | the movements of a Hare | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make not said to happen | to-infinitive | Hare not said here | Hare's prey | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset prey=Product | ||||
| 5 | move | a Hare | nom movement «act transitive»: of=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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