The Aesop for Children, The Milkmaid and Her Pail, sentence 5
How nice it will be when they are all hatched and the yard is full of fine young chicks.
Who acts: yard · What happens: hatch, be · To what, where: lot
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her Pail. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (yard), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 2 nice | advmod |
| 2 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hatched | aux |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hatched | aux:pass |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 hatched | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 8 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 hatched | aux:pass |
| 9 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 hatched | advmod |
| 10 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 nice | parataxis |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 full | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 yard | det |
| 13 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 full | nsubj |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 full | cop |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hatched | conj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 chicks | case |
| 17 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chicks | amod |
| 18 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 chicks | amod |
| 19 | chicks | chick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 full | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 nice | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hatch | future · passive | lot | all property | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | is | present | the yard | of fine young chicks; full property | tree rules |
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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