The Aesop for Children, The Goatherd and the Goat, sentence 4
Then he picked up a stone and threw it, breaking the Goat's horn.
Who acts: Goat · What happens: pick up, throw, break · To what, where: stone, horn
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goatherd and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 stone | det |
| 6 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 threw | cc |
| 8 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 threw | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 breaking | punct |
| 11 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 threw | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Goat | det |
| 13 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 horn | nmod:poss |
| 14 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 13 Goat | case |
| 15 | horn | horn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 breaking | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | Goat | a stone | then | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | |||
| 2 | throw | past | Goat not said here | stone | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | break | gerund | Goat not said here | the Goat's horn | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horn=Patient |
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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