Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 127
A PEASANT found an Eagle captured in a trap, and much admiring the bird, set him free.
Who acts: PEASANT, Eagle · What happens: find, capture, admire, set · To what, where: Eagle, trap, bird
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 (PEASANT, Eagle), 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 PEASANT | det |
| 2 | PEASANT | peasant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Eagle | det |
| 5 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 found | obj |
| 6 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | xcomp |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 trap | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 trap | det |
| 9 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 captured | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 admiring | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 admiring | cc |
| 12 | much | much | ADV | _ | 13 admiring | advmod |
| 13 | admiring | admire | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 found | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 bird | det |
| 15 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 admiring | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 set | punct |
| 17 | set | set | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 admiring | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 set | obj |
| 19 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 set | xcomp |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | a PEASANT | a Eagle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent eagle=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | capture | participle | a Eagle not said here | a trap | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | admire | gerund | a PEASANT not said here | the bird | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bird=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | set | infinitive | a PEASANT not said here | Eagle | free property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient he=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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