The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 13

At last they paid no attention whatever to the Farmer.

Who acts: Cranes · What happens: pay · To what, where: attention, last

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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 paid	obl
3	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 paid	nsubj
4	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	6 attention	det
6	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 paid	obj
7	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 paid	obj
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 Farmer	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Farmer	det
10	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 whatever	nmod
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Cranes = crane	no attention		last			vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent attention=Recipient whatever=Asset

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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