The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 1
A Farmer was driving his wagon along a miry country road after a heavy rain.
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: drive · To what, where: wagon, miry country road
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Farmer), 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 Farmer | det |
| 2 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 driving | aux |
| 4 | driving | drive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wagon | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obj |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 11 road | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 road | det |
| 9 | miry | miry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 road | amod |
| 10 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 road | compound |
| 11 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 driving | obl |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 rain | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rain | det |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 rain | amod |
| 15 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 road | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 driving | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | past · progressive | a Farmer | Farmer's wagon | a miry country road after a heavy rain | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wagon=Theme along road=Trajectory |
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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