Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 84

They at once made up their quarrel, saying, “It is better for us to make friends, than to become the food of Crows or Vultures.”

Who acts: beasts, us · What happens: make up, say, be, make, become, quarrel · To what, where: quarrel, friends, food · 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 (beasts, us), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 made	nsubj
2	at	at	SCONJ	_	4 made	mark
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	4 made	advmod
4	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 made	compound:prt
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 quarrel	nmod:poss
7	quarrel	quarrel	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 saying	punct
9	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 made	parataxis
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 better	punct
12	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 better	expl
13	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 better	cop
14	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	9 saying	ccomp
15	for	for	SCONJ	_	18 make	mark
16	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 make	nsubj
17	to	to	PART	_	18 make	mark
18	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 better	csubj
19	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 make	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 become	punct
21	than	than	SCONJ	_	23 become	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	23 become	mark
23	become	become	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	18 make	parataxis
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 food	det
25	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 become	xcomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 Crows	case
27	Crows	crow	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 food	nmod
28	or	or	CCONJ	_	29 Vultures	cc
29	Vultures	vulture	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 Crows	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make up	participle	beasts = beast	beasts's quarrel	once property	vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme quarrel=Pivot
2	say speech: assert	gerund				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present			good property	tree rules
4	make in a quote	to-infinitive	us	friends		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Product
5	become in a quote	to-infinitive		the food of Crows or Vultures		vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	quarrel		beasts = beast			nom quarrel «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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