The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 3
He made so many trips that a Thief, who had been observing him, guessed what it was the Miser had hidden, and one night quietly dug up the treasure and made off with it.
Who acts: Miser, many trips, Thief · What happens: make, thief, observe, guess, hide, dig up · To what, where: many trips, Miser, Thief, one night
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, many trips, Thief), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 made | nsubj |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 many | advmod |
| 4 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 trips | amod |
| 5 | trips | trip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | obj |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 8 Thief | nsubj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Thief | det |
| 8 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 trips | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 observing | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 observing | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 observing | aux |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 observing | aux |
| 13 | observing | observe | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 Thief | acl:relcl |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 observing | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 guessed | punct |
| 16 | guessed | guess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 guessed | obj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hidden | aux:pass |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Miser | det |
| 21 | Miser | Miser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 hidden | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 hidden | aux |
| 23 | hidden | hide | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 dug | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 dug | cc |
| 26 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 night | nummod |
| 27 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dug | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 29 dug | advmod |
| 29 | dug | dig | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 made | conj |
| 30 | up | up | ADP | _ | 29 dug | compound:prt |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 treasure | det |
| 32 | treasure | treasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 dug | obj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 made | cc |
| 34 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 dug | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 34 made | compound:prt |
| 36 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 it | case |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 made | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | Miser | many trips | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trip=Product | ||||
| 2 | thief | many trips | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | observe | past · perfect · progressive | a Thief | Miser | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic | ||||
| 4 | guess | past | Miser not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | |||||
| 5 | hide | past · perfect · passive | Thief | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 6 | dig up | participle · passive | one night | quietly property | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary treasure=Result | ||||
| 7 | make off | participle | with treasure | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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