The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 1

One bright day in late autumn a family of Ants were bustling about in the warm sunshine, drying out the grain they had stored up during the summer, when a starving Grasshopper, his fiddle under his arm, came up and humbly begged for a bite to eat.

Who acts: family, grain, starving Grasshopper · What happens: bustle, dry out, store up, starve, come up, beg · To what, where: warm sunshine, grain, Ants

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ants and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, grain, starving Grasshopper), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 day	nummod
2	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 day	amod
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bustling	obl:unmarked
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 autumn	case
5	late	late	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 autumn	amod
6	autumn	autumn	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 day	nmod
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 family	det
8	family	family	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bustling	nsubj
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Ants	case
10	Ants	ant	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 family	nmod
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bustling	aux
12	bustling	bustle	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
13	about	about	ADV	_	12 bustling	advmod
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 sunshine	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 sunshine	det
16	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 sunshine	amod
17	sunshine	sunshine	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 bustling	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 drying	punct
19	drying	dry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 bustling	advcl
20	out	out	ADP	_	19 drying	compound:prt
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 grain	det
22	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 drying	obj
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 stored	nsubj:pass
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 stored	aux
25	stored	store	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 grain	acl:relcl
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 stored	compound:prt
27	during	during	ADP	_	29 summer	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 summer	det
29	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 stored	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 came	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	42 came	advmod
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 Grasshopper	det
33	starving	starve	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 Grasshopper	amod
34	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 came	nsubj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 fiddle	punct
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	37 fiddle	nmod:poss
37	fiddle	fiddle	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 Grasshopper	appos
38	under	under	ADP	_	40 arm	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	40 arm	nmod:poss
40	arm	arm	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 fiddle	nmod
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 Grasshopper	punct
42	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 bustling	parataxis
43	up	up	ADV	_	42 came	advmod
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 begged	cc
45	humbly	humbly	ADV	_	46 begged	advmod
46	begged	beg	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 came	conj
47	for	for	ADP	_	49 bite	case
48	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	49 bite	det
49	bite	bite	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 begged	obl
50	to	to	PART	_	51 eat	mark
51	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	46 begged	advcl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 bustling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	bustle	past · progressive	a family of Ants		the warm sunshine	day	about property	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sunshine=Trajectory
2	dry out	gerund	a family of Ants not said here	the grain				vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient grain=Result
3	store up	past · perfect · passive	the grain not said here	Ants = ant		summer		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	starve	gerund						tree rules
5	come up	past	a starving Grasshopper					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	beg speech: request	participle	a starving Grasshopper not said here				for a bite; humbly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for bite=Topic
7	eat	to-infinitive	a starving Grasshopper not said here					vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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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