The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 1

A Stork of a very simple and trusting nature had been asked by a gay party of Cranes to visit a field that had been newly planted.

Who acts: gay party · What happens: trust, ask, visit, plant · To what, where: Stork, field · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (gay party), 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	2 Stork	det
2	Stork	stork	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	9 nature	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 nature	det
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 simple	advmod
6	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 nature	amod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 trusting	cc
8	trusting	trust	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 simple	conj
9	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Stork	nmod
10	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 asked	aux
11	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	12 asked	aux:pass
12	asked	ask	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
13	by	by	ADP	_	16 party	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 party	det
15	gay	gay	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 party	amod
16	party	party	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 Cranes	case
18	Cranes	crane	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 party	nmod
19	to	to	PART	_	20 visit	mark
20	visit	visit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 asked	ccomp
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 field	det
22	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 visit	obj
23	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 planted	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 planted	aux
25	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	27 planted	aux:pass
26	newly	newly	ADV	_	27 planted	advmod
27	planted	plant	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 field	acl:relcl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	trust	gerund	a gay party of Cranes not said here			vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	ask speech: ask	past · perfect · passive	a gay party of Cranes	a Stork of a simple nature		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient clause=Topic
3	visit not said to happen	to-infinitive		a field		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Co-Agent
4	plant	past · perfect · passive		a field	newly property	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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