The Aesop for Children, The Crow and the Pitcher, sentence 5
Picking up some small pebbles, he dropped them into the pitcher one by one.
Who acts: idea · What happens: pick up, drop · To what, where: small pebbles, pebbles, pitcher
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 (idea), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:264): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Picking | pick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 dropped | advcl |
| 2 | up | up | ADP | _ | 1 Picking | compound:prt |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 pebbles | det |
| 4 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 pebbles | amod |
| 5 | pebbles | pebble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Picking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dropped | nsubj |
| 8 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 dropped | obj |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 pitcher | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 pitcher | det |
| 12 | pitcher | pitcher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 dropped | obl |
| 13 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 dropped | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 one | case |
| 15 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 one | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | gerund | idea not said here | some small pebbles | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pebble=Topic | ||||
| 2 | drop | past | idea | pebbles = pebble | the pitcher | one by one obl:unmarked | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into pitcher=Destination |
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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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