The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 2
But the party ended dismally with all the birds entangled in the meshes of the Farmer's net.
Who acts: party, birds · What happens: end, entangle
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 (party, birds), 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 | _ | 4 ended | cc |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 party | det |
| 3 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ended | nsubj |
| 4 | ended | end | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | dismally | dismally | ADV | _ | 4 ended | advmod |
| 6 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 10 entangled | mark |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 9 birds | det:predet |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 birds | det |
| 9 | birds | bird | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 entangled | nsubj |
| 10 | entangled | entangle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 ended | advcl |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 meshes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 meshes | det |
| 13 | meshes | mesh | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 entangled | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 net | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Farmer | det |
| 16 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 net | nmod:poss |
| 17 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 16 Farmer | case |
| 18 | net | net | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 meshes | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | end | past | the party | dismally property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | entangle | past | all birds | in the meshes of the Farmer's net | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in mesh=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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