Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 116

A Dove sitting on a tree overhanging the water plucked a leaf and let it fall into the stream close to her.

Who acts: Dove · What happens: sit, overhang, pluck, let, fall · To what, where: tree, water, leaf, Dove, stream

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 (Dove), 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 Dove	det
2	Dove	Dove	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 plucked	nsubj
3	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Dove	acl
4	on	on	ADP	_	6 tree	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 tree	det
6	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sitting	obl
7	overhanging	overhang	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 sitting	advcl
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 water	det
9	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 overhanging	obj
10	plucked	pluck	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 leaf	det
12	leaf	leaf	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 plucked	obj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 let	cc
14	let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 plucked	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 let	obj
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 let	xcomp
17	into	into	ADP	_	19 stream	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 stream	det
19	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	obl
20	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 stream	amod
21	to	to	ADP	_	22 her	case
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 close	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 plucked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	gerund	a Dove not said here		a tree		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
2	overhang	gerund	a Dove not said here	the water			vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme water=Co-Theme
3	pluck	past	a Dove	a leaf			vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent leaf=Patient
4	let	infinitive	a Dove not said here	Dove			tree rules
5	fall	infinitive	Dove not said here			into the stream result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into stream=Result

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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