Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 120
In pain the birdcatcher threw down the twigs, and the noise made the Dove take wing.
Who acts: birdcatcher, noise, Dove · What happens: throw down, make, take · To what, where: twigs, pain, wing
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, noise, 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 pain | case |
| 2 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | obl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 birdcatcher | det |
| 4 | birdcatcher | birdcatcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 threw | nsubj |
| 5 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 5 threw | compound:prt |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 twigs | det |
| 8 | twigs | twig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 threw | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 made | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 made | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 noise | det |
| 12 | noise | noise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 made | nsubj |
| 13 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 threw | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Dove | det |
| 15 | Dove | Dove | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 take | nsubj |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 made | ccomp |
| 17 | wing | wing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw down | past | the birdcatcher | the twigs | pain | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent twig=Theme in pain=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | the noise | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | present | the Dove | wing | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=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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