The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 17

There was much fluttering and trying out of wings that afternoon, and at sunrise next day, when the Farmer and his son cut down the grain, they found an empty nest.

Who acts: Farmer, son · What happens: be, flutter, try out, son, cut down, find · To what, where: wings, grain, empty nest

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, son), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	much	much	ADV	_	2 was	advmod
4	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 was	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 trying	cc
6	trying	try	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 fluttering	conj
7	out	out	ADP	_	9 wings	case
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 wings	case
9	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 trying	obl
10	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 afternoon	det
11	afternoon	afternoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 wings	nmod:unmarked
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 found	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 found	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 sunrise	case
15	sunrise	sunrise	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obl
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 day	amod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sunrise	nmod:unmarked
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 son	punct
19	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	24 son	advmod
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Farmer	det
21	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	24 son	nsubj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 son	cc
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 son	nmod:poss
24	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 sunrise	conj
25	cut	cut	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 son	acl
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 cut	compound:prt
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 grain	det
28	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 cut	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sunrise	punct
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 found	nsubj
31	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	parataxis
32	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 nest	det
33	empty	empty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 nest	amod
34	nest	nest	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 found	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	be	past			there		vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	flutter	gerund					vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	try out	gerund		wings that afternoon			vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Theme
4	son		the Farmer				tree rules
5	cut down	participle	man's son not said here	the grain			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	find	past	Farmer	a empty nest		sunrise	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nest=Topic

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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