The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 11
"If this wheat is not harvested at once," said the Farmer, "we shall lose half the crop.
Who acts: Farmer, we · What happens: not harvest, say, lose · To what, where: wheat, crop · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Farmer, we), 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 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 harvested | mark |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 wheat | det |
| 4 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 harvested | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 harvested | aux:pass |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 harvested | advmod |
| 7 | harvested | harvest | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 said | advcl |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 harvested | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 harvested | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 harvested | punct |
| 12 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Farmer | det |
| 14 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 said | nsubj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 16 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 lose | punct |
| 17 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 lose | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 lose | aux |
| 19 | lose | lose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 said | conj |
| 20 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 22 crop | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 crop | det |
| 22 | crop | crop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 lose | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not harvest a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · passive | this wheat | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | lose in a quote | shall | we | half crop | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crop=Eventuality |
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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