The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 17

This had the effect the Farmer wanted, for from that day the Cranes visited his field no more.

Who acts: This, Farmer, Cranes · What happens: have, want, visit · To what, where: effect, 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 (This, Farmer, 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	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 effect	det
4	effect	effect	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 had	obj
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Farmer	det
6	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 wanted	nsubj
7	wanted	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	parataxis
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 visited	punct
9	for	for	ADP	_	12 day	case
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 day	case
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 day	det
12	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visited	obl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Cranes	det
14	Cranes	Crane	PROPN	Number=Plur	15 visited	nsubj
15	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 wanted	parataxis
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 field	nmod:poss
17	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 visited	obj
18	no	no	ADV	_	19 more	advmod
19	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	15 visited	advmod
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	have	past	This	the effect		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient
2	want	past	the Farmer			vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	visit	past	the Cranes	farmer's field	day	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Co-Agent

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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