The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 1
A Miser had buried his gold in a secret place in his garden.
What happens: bury · To what, where: Miser, secret place
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 Miser | det |
| 2 | Miser | Miser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 buried | aux |
| 4 | buried | bury | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 gold | nmod:poss |
| 6 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 place | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 place | det |
| 9 | secret | secret | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 place | amod |
| 10 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 buried | obl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 garden | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 garden | nmod:poss |
| 13 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 place | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 buried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bury | past · perfect · passive | a Miser | a secret place in his garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme gold=Destination |
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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