Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 104

The bird-trap was quite empty, as he had caught nothing, and he had to kill a pied Partridge, which he had tamed for a decoy.

Who acts: bird trap, Lion · What happens: be, catch, have, kill, pi, tame · To what, where: Lion, pied Partridge

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 (bird trap, Lion), 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	4 trap	det
2	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 trap	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 bird	punct
4	trap	trap	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 empty	nsubj
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 empty	cop
6	quite	quite	ADV	_	7 empty	advmod
7	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 caught	punct
9	as	as	SCONJ	_	12 caught	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 caught	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 caught	aux
12	caught	catch	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 empty	advcl
13	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	12 caught	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 had	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 had	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 had	nsubj
17	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 empty	parataxis
18	to	to	PART	_	19 kill	mark
19	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 had	xcomp
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 Partridge	det
21	pied	pi	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Partridge	amod
22	Partridge	Partridge	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 kill	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 tamed	punct
24	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 tamed	nsubj:pass
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 tamed	nsubj:pass
26	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 tamed	aux
27	tamed	tame	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 Partridge	acl:relcl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 decoy	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 decoy	det
30	decoy	decoy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tamed	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 empty	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	past	the bird trap		empty property	tree rules
2	catch	past · perfect · passive		Lion		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary nothing=Theme
3	have	past	Lion			tree rules
4	kill	to-infinitive	Lion not said here	a pied Partridge		vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent partridge=Theme
5	pi	participle				tree rules
6	tame	past · perfect · passive		a pied Partridge	for a decoy	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=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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