Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 110
A SEAGULL having bolted down too large a fish, burst its deep gullet-bag and lay down on the shore to die.
Who acts: SEAGULL · What happens: have, bolt down, burst, lay down, die · To what, where: large fish, deep gullet bag, shore
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (SEAGULL), 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 SEAGULL | det |
| 2 | SEAGULL | seagull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burst | nsubj |
| 3 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 SEAGULL | acl |
| 4 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 having | xcomp |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 4 bolted | compound:prt |
| 6 | too | too | ADV | _ | 7 large | advmod |
| 7 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 fish | amod |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 fish | det |
| 9 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 bolted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 SEAGULL | punct |
| 11 | burst | burst | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 bag | nmod:poss |
| 13 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bag | amod |
| 14 | gullet | gullet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bag | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 gullet | punct |
| 16 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 burst | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 lay | cc |
| 18 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 burst | conj |
| 19 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 lay | advmod |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 shore | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 shore | det |
| 22 | shore | shore | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 lay | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 die | mark |
| 24 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 lay | advcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 burst | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | a SEAGULL not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bolt down | participle | a SEAGULL not said here | a large fish | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | burst | past | a SEAGULL | Kite's deep gullet bag | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location bag=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lay down | infinitive | a SEAGULL not said here | the shore | down property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on shore=Destination | |||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | a SEAGULL not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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