Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 107
The Birdcatcher spared his life, and determined to pick out a fine young Cock just attaining to his comb.
Who acts: Birdcatcher, fine young Cock · What happens: spare, pick out, attain · To what, where: life, fine young Cock
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, fine young Cock), 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 | 2 Birdcatcher | det |
| 2 | Birdcatcher | Birdcatcher | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 spared | nsubj |
| 3 | spared | spare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 life | nmod:poss |
| 5 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 spared | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 determined | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 determined | cc |
| 8 | determined | determined | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 spared | conj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 pick | mark |
| 10 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 determined | xcomp |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 pick | compound:prt |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Cock | det |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Cock | amod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Cock | amod |
| 15 | Cock | cock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 pick | obj |
| 16 | just | just | ADV | _ | 17 attaining | advmod |
| 17 | attaining | attain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 Cock | acl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 comb | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 comb | nmod:poss |
| 20 | comb | comb | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 attaining | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past | the Birdcatcher | bird's life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | pick out | to-infinitive | the Birdcatcher not said here | a fine young Cock | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Patient | ||||
| 3 | attain | gerund | a fine young Cock not said here | to bird's comb | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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