The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 12
Why did you not keep it in the house where you could easily get it when you had to buy things?"
Who acts: you · What happens: not keep, get, have, buy · To what, where: hole, house, things
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: who acts (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 keep | advmod |
| 2 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 keep | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | nsubj |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 keep | advmod |
| 5 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 keep | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 house | det |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keep | obl |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 get | advmod |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 get | nsubj |
| 12 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | aux |
| 13 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 14 get | advmod |
| 14 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 house | acl:relcl |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 get | obj |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 had | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 get | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 buy | mark |
| 20 | buy | buy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 had | xcomp |
| 21 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 buy | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 keep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not keep | past · do-support | you | hole | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in house=Location | |||
| 2 | get | could | you | hole | easily property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | have | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | buy | to-infinitive | you not said here | things | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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