The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Cranes, sentence 6

He had had experience with such birds before.

Who acts: farmer · What happens: have · To what, where: experience

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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 had	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 had	aux
3	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	experience	experience	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	obj
5	with	with	ADP	_	7 birds	case
6	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 birds	amod
7	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obl
8	before	before	ADV	_	3 had	advmod
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past · perfect	farmer	experience				with such birds; before property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient

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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