Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 128

The Eagle did not prove ungrateful to his deliverer, for seeing the Peasant sitting under a wall which was not safe, he flew toward him and with his talons snatched a bundle from his head.

Who acts: Eagle, Peasant, wall · What happens: not prove, see, sit, not be, fly, snatch · To what, where: Peasant, wall, bundle, head

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 (Eagle, Peasant, wall), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Eagle	det
2	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 prove	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prove	aux
4	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 prove	advmod
5	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 prove	xcomp
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 deliverer	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 deliverer	nmod:poss
9	deliverer	deliverer	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 ungrateful	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seeing	punct
11	for	for	SCONJ	_	12 seeing	mark
12	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 prove	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Peasant	det
14	Peasant	Peasant	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 seeing	obj
15	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	12 seeing	xcomp
16	under	under	ADP	_	18 wall	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 wall	det
18	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sitting	obl
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 safe	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 safe	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 safe	advmod
22	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 wall	acl:relcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 flew	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flew	nsubj
25	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prove	parataxis
26	toward	toward	ADP	_	27 him	case
27	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 flew	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 snatched	cc
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 talons	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 talons	nmod:poss
31	talons	talon	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 snatched	obl
32	snatched	snatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 flew	conj
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 bundle	det
34	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 snatched	obj
35	from	from	ADP	_	37 head	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 head	nmod:poss
37	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 snatched	obl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 prove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not prove	past · do-support	the Eagle			ungrateful property	vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
2	see	gerund	the Eagle not said here	the Peasant			tree rules
3	sit	gerund	the Peasant not said here		a wall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under wall=Location
4	not is	past	a wall			safe property	tree rules
5	fly	past	Eagle			toward bird	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme toward he=Trajectory
6	snatch	past	Eagle not said here	a bundle	Eagle's head	with Eagle's talons	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent bundle=Theme from head=Source

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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