The Aesop for Children, Hercules and the Wagoner, sentence 3
The farmer climbed down from his seat and stood beside the wagon looking at it but without making the least effort to get it out of the rut.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: climb down, stand, look, make, get · To what, where: seat, wagon, least effort, effort, rut
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 farmer | det |
| 2 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 climbed | advmod |
| 5 | from | from | ADP | _ | 7 seat | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 seat | nmod:poss |
| 7 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climbed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stood | cc |
| 9 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 climbed | conj |
| 10 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 12 wagon | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 wagon | det |
| 12 | wagon | wagon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stood | obl |
| 13 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 stood | advcl |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 it | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 looking | obl |
| 16 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 get | cc |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 making | mark |
| 18 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 get | advcl |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 effort | det |
| 20 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 effort | amod |
| 21 | effort | effort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 making | obj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 9 stood | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 get | obj |
| 25 | out | out | ADP | _ | 28 rut | case |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rut | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rut | det |
| 28 | rut | rut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 get | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | past | the farmer | Farmer's seat | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from seat=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | stand | past | the farmer not said here | the wagon | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent beside wagon=Location | ||||
| 3 | look | gerund | the farmer not said here | at wagon | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | the least effort | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset effort=Product | |||||
| 5 | get | to-infinitive | the farmer not said here | effort | the rut | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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