The Aesop for Children, The Fisherman and the Little Fish, sentence 6
But the Fisherman quickly put the fish into his basket.
Who acts: Fisherman · What happens: put · To what, where: fish, basket
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 (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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 put | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Fisherman | det |
| 3 | Fisherman | Fisherman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 put | nsubj |
| 4 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 basket | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 basket | nmod:poss |
| 10 | basket | basket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | infinitive | the Fisherman | the fish | Fisherman's basket | quickly property | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent fish=Goal |
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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