The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 1
A Lark made her nest in a field of young wheat.
Who acts: Lark · What happens: make · To what, where: nest, field
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Lark and Her Young Ones. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lark), 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 Lark | det |
| 2 | Lark | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 nest | nmod:poss |
| 5 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 field | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 field | det |
| 8 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 wheat | case |
| 10 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 wheat | amod |
| 11 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 field | nmod |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | a Lark | Lark's nest | a field of young wheat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset nest=Product |
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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