The Aesop for Children, The Bundle of Sticks, sentence 6

The Father then untied the bundle and gave the sticks to his Sons to break one by one.

Who acts: Father · What happens: untie, give, break · To what, where: bundle, sticks, Sons, one

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Father	det
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 untied	nsubj
3	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 untied	advmod
4	untied	untie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 bundle	det
6	bundle	bundle	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 untied	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 gave	cc
8	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 untied	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sticks	det
10	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 Sons	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 Sons	nmod:poss
13	Sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 gave	obl
14	to	to	PART	_	15 break	mark
15	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 gave	advcl
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 break	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 one	case
18	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	15 break	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 untied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	untie	past	the Father	the bundle		then		vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient
2	give	past	the Father not said here	the sticks	Father's Sons			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent stick=Theme to son=Recipient
3	break	to-infinitive	the Father not said here	one			by one	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Patient

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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