The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 1
Some Cranes saw a farmer plowing a large field.
Who acts: Cranes, farmer · What happens: see, plow · To what, where: farmer, large field
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Cranes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cranes, farmer), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 Cranes | det |
| 2 | Cranes | Crane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 farmer | det |
| 5 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | plowing | plow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 farmer | acl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 field | det |
| 8 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 field | amod |
| 9 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 plowing | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | some Cranes | a farmer | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer farmer=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | plow | gerund | a farmer not said here | a large field | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Agent field=Initial_Location |
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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