The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 5
The Farmer, of course, knew the Cranes and their ways.
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: know · To what, where: Cranes
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Farmer | det |
| 2 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farmer | punct |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 course | case |
| 5 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Farmer | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farmer | punct |
| 7 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cranes | det |
| 9 | Cranes | Crane | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 knew | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 ways | cc |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 ways | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ways | way | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 Cranes | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Farmer of course | the Cranes and Cranes's ways | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer crane=Stimulus |
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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