The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 2
When the work of plowing was done, they patiently watched him sow the seed.
Who acts: work, Cranes, farmer · What happens: plow, do, watch, sow · To what, where: work, farmer, seed
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 (work, 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 done | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 work | det |
| 3 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 done | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 5 plowing | mark |
| 5 | plowing | plow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 work | acl |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 done | aux:pass |
| 7 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 watched | advcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 done | punct |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watched | nsubj |
| 10 | patiently | patiently | ADV | _ | 11 watched | advmod |
| 11 | watched | watch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 watched | obj |
| 13 | sow | sow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 watched | xcomp |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 seed | det |
| 15 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sow | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 watched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plow | gerund | the work not said here | vn wipe_instr-10.4.2-1 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | do | past · passive | the work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | watch | past | Cranes = crane | farmer | patiently property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | sow | infinitive | farmer not said here | the seed | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent seed=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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