The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 10

A few days later, the wheat was so ripe, that when the wind shook the stalks, a hail of wheat grains came rustling down on the young Larks' heads.

Who acts: wheat, wind, that, wheat grains · What happens: be, shake, come, rustle down, hail · To what, where: stalks, heads

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 (wheat, wind, that, wheat grains), 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	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 ripe	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 later	punct
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 wheat	det
7	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 ripe	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ripe	cop
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 ripe	advmod
10	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 came	punct
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 came	nsubj
13	when	when	SCONJ	_	16 shook	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wind	det
15	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shook	nsubj
16	shook	shake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 that	advcl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 stalks	det
18	stalks	stalk	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 shook	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hail	punct
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 hail	det
21	hail	hail	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 stalks	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 grains	case
23	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 grains	compound
24	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 hail	nmod
25	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 ripe	advcl
26	rustling	rustle	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 came	xcomp
27	down	down	ADV	_	26 rustling	advmod
28	on	on	ADP	_	33 heads	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 Larks	det
30	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 Larks	amod
31	Larks	lark	NOUN	Number=Plur	33 heads	nmod:poss
32	'	's	PART	_	31 Larks	case
33	heads	head	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 rustling	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 ripe	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	past	the wheat			late, ripe property	tree rules
2	shake	past	the wind	the stalks			vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent stalk=Patient
3	come	past	that				tree rules
4	rustle down	gerund	that not said here		the young Larks's heads	down property	vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on head=Location
5	hail		wheat grains				nom hail «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent

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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