The Aesop for Children, The Boy and the Filberts, sentence 1
A Boy was given permission to put his hand into a pitcher to get some filberts.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: give, be, put, get · To what, where: given permission, hand, pitcher, filberts
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Boy and the Filberts. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy), 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 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 permission | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 permission | cop |
| 4 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 permission | amod |
| 5 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 put | mark |
| 7 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 permission | acl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 hand | nmod:poss |
| 9 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pitcher | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 pitcher | det |
| 12 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 put | obl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 get | mark |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 put | advcl |
| 15 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 filberts | det |
| 16 | filberts | filbert | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 get | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 permission | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | participle | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | a Boy | given permission | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | put | to-infinitive | Boy's hand | a pitcher | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal | ||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | some filberts | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer filbert=Stimulus |
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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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