The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 16
So he loaded his sling with stones and killed several of the Cranes.
Who acts: farmer · What happens: load, kill · To what, where: sling, several
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 loaded | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 loaded | nsubj |
| 3 | loaded | load | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sling | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sling | sling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 loaded | obj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 7 stones | case |
| 7 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 loaded | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 killed | cc |
| 9 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 loaded | conj |
| 10 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 killed | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Cranes | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Cranes | det |
| 13 | Cranes | Crane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 several | nmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 loaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | load | past | farmer | farmer's sling | with stones | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent sling=Destination with stone=Theme | |||
| 2 | kill | past | farmer not said here | several of the Cranes | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent several=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: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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