Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 83

When they stopped suddenly to catch their breath for a fiercer renewal of the fight, they saw some Vultures waiting in the distance to feast on the one that should fall first.

Who acts: beasts, Vultures, one · What happens: stop, catch, see, wait, feast, fall · To what, where: breath, Vultures, fight

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 (beasts, Vultures, one), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 stopped	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 stopped	nsubj
3	stopped	stop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	advcl
4	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	3 stopped	advmod
5	to	to	PART	_	6 catch	mark
6	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 stopped	xcomp
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 breath	nmod:poss
8	breath	breath	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 renewal	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 renewal	det
11	fiercer	fierce	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 renewal	amod
12	renewal	renewal	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 catch	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	15 fight	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 fight	det
15	fight	fight	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 renewal	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 stopped	punct
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
19	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	20 Vultures	det
20	Vultures	vulture	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 saw	obj
21	waiting	wait	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	20 Vultures	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 distance	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 distance	det
24	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 waiting	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 feast	mark
26	feast	feast	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 waiting	advcl
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 one	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 one	det
29	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 feast	obl
30	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fall	nsubj
31	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 fall	aux
32	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 one	acl:relcl
33	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	32 fall	advmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	stop	past	beasts = beast		suddenly property	vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
2	catch	to-infinitive	beasts = beast not said here	beasts's breath	for a fiercer renewal of the fight	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent breath=Theme for renewal=Beneficiary
3	see	past	beasts = beast	some Vultures		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer vulture=Stimulus
4	wait	gerund	some Vultures not said here		in the distance	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=Location
5	feast	to-infinitive	some Vultures not said here		on the one	vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on one=Patient
6	fall	should	the one		first property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	renew			the fight		nom renewal «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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