Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 91

She turned her sound eye towards the land that she might get the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound, and her injured eye towards the sea, from whence she entertained no anticipation of danger.

Who acts: Doe, land, hunter · What happens: turn, get, entertain, approach · To what, where: sound eye, land, earliest tidings, anticipation

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 (Doe, land, hunter), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 turned	nsubj
2	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 eye	nmod:poss
4	sound	sound	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 eye	compound
5	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obj
6	towards	towards	ADP	_	8 land	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 land	det
8	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 get	nsubj
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 get	nsubj
11	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 get	aux
12	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 land	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 tidings	det
14	earliest	early	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 tidings	amod
15	tidings	tiding	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 get	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 approach	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 approach	det
18	approach	approach	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tidings	nmod
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 hunter	case
20	hunter	hunter	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 approach	nmod
21	or	or	CCONJ	_	22 hound	cc
22	hound	hound	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 hunter	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 eye	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 eye	cc
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 eye	nmod:poss
26	injured	injured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 eye	amod
27	eye	eye	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 turned	obl
28	towards	towards	ADP	_	30 sea	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 sea	det
30	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 eye	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 entertained	punct
32	from	from	SCONJ	_	35 entertained	mark
33	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	35 entertained	advmod
34	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 entertained	nsubj
35	entertained	entertain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 turned	conj
36	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	37 anticipation	det
37	anticipation	anticipation	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 entertained	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 danger	case
39	danger	danger	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 anticipation	nmod
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn	past	Doe	Doe's sound eye	the land	Doe's injured eye towards the sea obl	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent eye=Theme towards land=Trajectory
2	get	might	the land	the earliest tidings of the approach of hunter or hound			vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus
3	entertain	past	Doe	no anticipation of danger		whence property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus anticipation=Experiencer
4	approach		hunter or hound				nom approach «act intransitive»: of=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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