Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 73
The Eagle gave one look at the arrow that had entered his heart and saw in that single glance that its feathers had been furnished by himself.
Who acts: Eagle, archer · What happens: give, enter, see, furnish · To what, where: one look, arrow, single glance, feathers · Speech: someone speaks here
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, archer), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Eagle | det |
| 2 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 look | nummod |
| 5 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 arrow | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 arrow | det |
| 8 | arrow | arrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obl |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 entered | aux |
| 11 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 arrow | acl |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 heart | nmod:poss |
| 13 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entered | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 saw | cc |
| 15 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gave | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 glance | case |
| 17 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 glance | det |
| 18 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 glance | amod |
| 19 | glance | glance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 saw | obl |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 furnished | mark |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 22 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 furnished | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 furnished | aux |
| 24 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 25 furnished | aux:pass |
| 25 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 saw | ccomp |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 himself | case |
| 27 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 furnished | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | the Eagle | one look | the arrow | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent look=Theme at arrow=Asset | |||
| 2 | enter | past · perfect · passive | the arrow | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see | past | the Eagle not said here | that single glance | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | furnish | past · perfect · passive | archer | glance's feathers | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient |
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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