Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 103
A BIRDCATCHER was about to sit down to a dinner of herbs when a friend unexpectedly came in.
Who acts: BIRDCATCHER, friend · What happens: be, sit down, come in
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (BIRDCATCHER, friend), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 BIRDCATCHER | det |
| 2 | BIRDCATCHER | BIRDCATCHER | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 about | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 about | cop |
| 4 | about | about | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 sit | mark |
| 6 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 about | xcomp |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 sit | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 dinner | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 dinner | det |
| 10 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sit | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 herbs | case |
| 12 | herbs | herb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 dinner | nmod |
| 13 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 came | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 friend | det |
| 15 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 came | nsubj |
| 16 | unexpectedly | unexpectedly | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 17 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 sit | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 came | advmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 about | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | a BIRDCATCHER | about property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | sit down | to-infinitive | a BIRDCATCHER not said here | to a dinner of herbs | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | come in | past | a friend | unexpectedly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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