The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 11
But they soon began to see that none of them ever got hurt.
Who acts: Cranes · What happens: begin, see, hurt · To what, where: none · Speech: someone speaks here
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 began | cc |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 began | nsubj |
| 3 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 began | advmod |
| 4 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 see | mark |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 began | xcomp |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 hurt | mark |
| 8 | none | none | PRON | PronType=Neg | 13 hurt | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 none | nmod |
| 11 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 13 hurt | advmod |
| 12 | got | get | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hurt | aux:pass |
| 13 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 see | ccomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | begin | past | Cranes = crane | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | Cranes = crane not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | hurt | past · passive | none | ever | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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