The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 2
After he had been in the well a long time, a thirsty Goat came by.
Who acts: he, thirsty Goat · What happens: be, come by · To what, where: well
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (he, thirsty Goat), 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:pg19994:573): 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 well | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 well | nsubj |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 well | aux |
| 4 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 well | cop |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 well | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 well | det |
| 7 | well | well | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 came | advcl |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 time | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 time | amod |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 well | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 well | punct |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Goat | det |
| 13 | thirsty | thirsty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Goat | amod |
| 14 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 came | nsubj |
| 15 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 came | compound:prt |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past · perfect | he | the well | time | tree rules | |||
| 2 | come by | past | a thirsty Goat | vn escape-51.1-1 «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: 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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