Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 129
When the Peasant rose in pursuit, the Eagle let the bundle fall again.
Who acts: Eagle, bundle · What happens: let, fall
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, bundle), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 rose | det |
| 3 | Peasant | peasant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 rose | amod |
| 4 | rose | rose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 When | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 pursuit | case |
| 6 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 rose | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Eagle | det |
| 9 | Eagle | Eagle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 let | nsubj |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 rose | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bundle | det |
| 12 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 fall | nsubj |
| 13 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | again | again | ADV | _ | 13 fall | advmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 When | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | past | the Eagle | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | fall | infinitive | the bundle | again | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=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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