The Aesop for Children, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, sentence 1

A poor Fisherman, who lived on the fish he caught, had bad luck one day and caught nothing but a very small fry.

Who acts: poor Fisherman, Fisherman · What happens: live, catch, have · To what, where: fish, bad luck, nothing

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fisherman and the Little Fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor Fisherman, Fisherman), 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 Fisherman	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Fisherman	amod
3	Fisherman	Fisherman	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 lived	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct
5	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	6 lived	nsubj
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	on	on	ADP	_	9 fish	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 fish	det
9	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 caught	nsubj
11	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 fish	acl:relcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 lived	conj
14	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 luck	amod
15	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 day	nummod
17	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obl:unmarked
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 caught	cc
19	caught	catch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	conj
20	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	19 caught	obj
21	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 fry	cc
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fry	det
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 small	advmod
24	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fry	amod
25	fry	fry	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 nothing	conj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	live	past	a poor Fisherman			on the fish	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on fish=Location
2	catch	past	Fisherman	the fish not said here			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Theme
3	have	past	a poor Fisherman not said here	bad luck	day		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent luck=Patient
4	catch	past	a poor Fisherman not said here	nothing			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme

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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