The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 3
Then one day, when the ripe golden grain waved in the breeze, the Farmer and his son came into the field.
Who acts: one day · What happens: wave, come · To what, where: ripe golden grain, 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 (one day), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 20 came | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 day | nummod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 waved | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 waved | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 grain | det |
| 7 | ripe | ripe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grain | amod |
| 8 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 grain | amod |
| 9 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waved | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | waved | wave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 day | acl:relcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 breeze | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 breeze | det |
| 13 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 waved | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Farmer | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Farmer | det |
| 16 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 breeze | appos |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 son | cc |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 son | nmod:poss |
| 19 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Farmer | conj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 23 field | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 field | det |
| 23 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | participle · passive | the ripe golden grain | in the breeze | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Patient in breeze=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | one day | the field | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into field=Initial_Location |
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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