The Aesop for Children, The Ants and the Grasshopper, sentence 4

"I didn't have time to store up any food," whined the Grasshopper; "I was so busy making music that before I knew it the summer was gone."

Who acts: starving Grasshopper, I, busy making music · What happens: not have, store up, whine, be, make, know · To what, where: food, Grasshopper, busy making music

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 (starving Grasshopper, I, busy making music), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	5 have	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 have	nsubj
3	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	aux
4	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 have	advmod
5	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 gone	advcl
6	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 have	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 store	mark
8	store	store	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 have	xcomp
9	up	up	ADP	_	8 store	compound:prt
10	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	11 food	det
11	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 store	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 whined	punct
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 whined	punct
14	whined	whine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 have	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Grasshopper	det
16	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 whined	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 music	punct
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	22 busy	punct
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 busy	nsubj
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 busy	cop
21	so	so	ADV	_	22 busy	advmod
22	busy	busy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 music	amod
23	making	make	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 music	amod
24	music	music	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 gone	nsubj
25	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	28 knew	obj
26	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 knew	mark
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 knew	nsubj
28	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 music	acl:relcl
29	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 knew	obj
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 summer	det
31	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 knew	obl:unmarked
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 gone	cop
33	gone	gone	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct
35	"	"	PUNCT	_	33 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	not have in a quote	past · do-support	a starving Grasshopper = grasshopper		time		tree rules
2	store up in a quote	to-infinitive	a starving Grasshopper = grasshopper not said here	any food			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
3	whine	past	I not said here	the Grasshopper			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grasshopper=Theme
4	is in a quote	past	a starving Grasshopper = grasshopper			busy property	tree rules
5	make in a quote	gerund					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
6	know in a quote	past	a starving Grasshopper = grasshopper	busy making music	summer		tree rules
7	is in a quote	past	busy making music			gone property	tree rules

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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