The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 4

So, as soon as the Farmer had finished planting and had gone home, down they flew to the field, and began to eat as fast as they could.

Who acts: Cranes · What happens: finish, go, fly, begin, eat · To what, where: Farmer

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	So	so	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	as	as	ADV	_	4 soon	advmod
4	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	13 gone	advmod
5	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 finished	mark
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Farmer	det
7	Farmer	Farmer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 finished	nsubj:pass
8	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 finished	aux
9	finished	finish	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 gone	advcl
10	planting	planting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 finished	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 gone	cc
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	aux
13	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
14	home	home	ADV	_	13 gone	advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 flew	punct
16	down	down	ADV	_	18 flew	advmod
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 flew	nsubj
18	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 gone	parataxis
19	to	to	ADP	_	21 field	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 field	det
21	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 flew	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 began	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 began	cc
24	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 flew	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 eat	mark
26	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 began	xcomp
27	as	as	ADV	_	28 fast	advmod
28	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 eat	advmod
29	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 could	mark
30	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 could	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 fast	advcl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	finish	past · perfect · passive		the Farmer		tree rules
2	go	past · perfect			home, soon property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	fly	past	Cranes = crane		to the field result; down property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to field=Result
4	begin	past	Cranes = crane not said here			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	eat	to-infinitive	Cranes = crane not said here		fast property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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