The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 2
Every day he went to the spot, dug up the treasure and counted it piece by piece to make sure it was all there.
Who acts: Miser, spot, piece · What happens: go, dig up, count, make, be · To what, where: spot, treasure
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 (Miser, spot, piece), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 spot | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 spot | det |
| 7 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 dug | punct |
| 9 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 spot | acl:relcl |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 dug | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 treasure | det |
| 12 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 dug | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 counted | cc |
| 14 | counted | count | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 counted | obj |
| 16 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 counted | obj |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 piece | case |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 counted | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 make | mark |
| 20 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 counted | advcl |
| 21 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 make | xcomp |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 there | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 there | cop |
| 24 | all | all | ADV | _ | 25 there | advmod |
| 25 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 sure | ccomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Miser | the spot | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to spot=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | dig up | participle | the spot not said here | the treasure | vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme | ||||
| 3 | count | past | Miser not said here | treasure | by piece | tree rules | |||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | Miser not said here | sure property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 5 | is | past | piece | all, there 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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