Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 118
Shortly afterwards a birdcatcher came and stood under the tree, and laid his lime-twigs for the Dove, which sat in the branches.
Who acts: birdcatcher, Dove · What happens: come, stand, lay, sit · To what, where: tree, lime twigs, branches
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, 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 2 afterwards | advmod |
| 2 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 5 came | advmod |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 birdcatcher | det |
| 4 | birdcatcher | birdcatcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 stood | cc |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 8 | under | under | ADP | _ | 10 tree | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tree | det |
| 10 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 laid | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 laid | cc |
| 13 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 twigs | nmod:poss |
| 15 | lime | lime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 twigs | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 lime | punct |
| 17 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 laid | obj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 Dove | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Dove | det |
| 20 | Dove | Dove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 laid | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 sat | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 sat | nsubj |
| 23 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 Dove | acl:relcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 branches | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 branches | det |
| 26 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 sat | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | a birdcatcher | afterwards property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | stand | past | a birdcatcher not said here | the tree | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under tree=Location | ||||
| 3 | lay | past | a birdcatcher not said here | bird's lime twigs | for the Dove | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent twig=Result for dove=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | sit | past | the Dove | the branches | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in branch=Location |
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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