The Aesop for Children, The Lark and Her Young Ones, sentence 4
"This wheat is now ready for reaping," said the Farmer. "
Who acts: wheat, Farmer · What happens: be, reap, say · 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 (wheat, Farmer), 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 | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 wheat | det |
| 3 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 ready | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 ready | cop |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 ready | advmod |
| 6 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 said | ccomp |
| 7 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 8 reaping | mark |
| 8 | reaping | reap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 ready | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 10 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 ready | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Farmer | det |
| 13 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 15 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | this wheat | now | ready property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reap in a quote | gerund | this wheat not said here | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Farmer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=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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