The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 6
Besides, I did not know the Cranes were going to steal."
Who acts: I, Cranes · What happens: not know, go, steal · 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 (I, Cranes), 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 | Besides | besides | INTJ | _ | 6 know | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Besides | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 know | nsubj |
| 4 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 know | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 know | advmod |
| 6 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Cranes | det |
| 8 | Cranes | Crane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 going | nsubj |
| 9 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 going | aux |
| 10 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 know | ccomp |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 steal | mark |
| 12 | steal | steal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 going | xcomp |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
| 14 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | past · do-support | I | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | go | past · progressive | the Cranes | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | steal | to-infinitive | the Cranes not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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