The Aesop for Children, The Boy and the Filberts, sentence 2
But he took such a great fistful that he could not draw his hand out again.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: take, not draw out · To what, where: great fistful, hand
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 took | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 fistful | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 fistful | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 fistful | amod |
| 7 | fistful | fistful | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 draw | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 draw | nsubj |
| 10 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 draw | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 draw | advmod |
| 12 | draw | draw | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 took | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 hand | nmod:poss |
| 14 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 draw | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 draw | compound:prt |
| 16 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 draw | advmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Boy | such great fistful | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fistful=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not draw out | could | Boy | Boy's hand | again | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=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: «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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