The Aesop for Children, The Crow and the Pitcher, sentence 1

In a spell of dry weather, when the Birds could find very little to drink, a thirsty Crow found a pitcher with a little water in it.

Who acts: Birds, thirsty Crow · What happens: find, drink, spell · To what, where: little, pitcher, spell, dry weather

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Crow and the Pitcher. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds, thirsty Crow), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 spell	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 spell	det
3	spell	spell	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 weather	case
5	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 weather	amod
6	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 spell	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 find	punct
8	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 find	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Birds	det
10	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 find	nsubj
11	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 find	aux
12	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 weather	acl:relcl
13	very	very	ADV	_	14 little	advmod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 find	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 drink	mark
16	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 little	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 spell	punct
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 Crow	det
19	thirsty	thirsty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 Crow	amod
20	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	nsubj
21	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 pitcher	det
23	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 found	obj
24	with	with	ADP	_	27 water	case
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 water	det
26	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 water	amod
27	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 pitcher	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	29 it	case
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 water	nmod
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	find	could	the Birds	little			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent little=Topic
2	drink	to-infinitive					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	find	past	a thirsty Crow	a pitcher	a spell of dry weather	with a little water in water	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pitcher=Topic
4	spell			dry weather			nom spell «state transitive»: of=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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