The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 16
The stranger picked up a large stone and threw it into the hole.
Who acts: stranger · What happens: pick up, throw · To what, where: large stone, stone, hole
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 (stranger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 stranger | det |
| 2 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 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 | 7 stone | det |
| 6 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 stone | amod |
| 7 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 threw | cc |
| 9 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 threw | obj |
| 11 | into | into | ADP | _ | 13 hole | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 hole | det |
| 13 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 threw | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | the stranger | a large stone | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic | ||||
| 2 | throw | past | the stranger not said here | stone | into the hole result | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer it=Theme into hole=Result |
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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