Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 130

Taking it up, the man returned to the same place, to find that the wall under which he had been sitting had fallen to pieces; and he marveled at the service rendered him by the Eagle.

Who acts: man, wall, service · What happens: take up, return, find, sit, fall, marvel · To what, where: bundle, wall, man

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 (man, wall, service), 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	Taking	take	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 returned	advcl
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Taking	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Taking	compound:prt
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Taking	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 man	det
6	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	nsubj
7	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	11 place	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 place	det
10	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 place	amod
11	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 returned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 find	punct
13	to	to	PART	_	14 find	mark
14	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 returned	conj
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 fallen	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 wall	det
17	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fallen	nsubj
18	under	under	ADP	_	19 which	case
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 sitting	obl
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 sitting	nsubj
21	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 sitting	aux
22	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	23 sitting	aux
23	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wall	acl:relcl
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 fallen	aux
25	fallen	fall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 find	advcl
26	to	to	ADP	_	27 pieces	case
27	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 fallen	obl
28	;	;	PUNCT	_	31 marveled	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 marveled	cc
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 marveled	nsubj
31	marveled	marvel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 returned	conj
32	at	at	SCONJ	_	35 rendered	mark
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 service	det
34	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 rendered	nsubj
35	rendered	render	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 marveled	advcl
36	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 rendered	obj
37	by	by	ADP	_	39 Eagle	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 Eagle	det
39	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 rendered	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take up	gerund	the man not said here	bundle			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
2	return	past	the man			to the same place result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to place=Result
3	find	to-infinitive	the man not said here				vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent
4	sit	past · perfect · progressive	man		the wall		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under which=Location
5	fall	past · perfect	the wall			to pieces	vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to piece=Theme
6	marvel	past	man				vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
7	render	past	the service	man		by the Eagle	vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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