The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and His Sons, sentence 1
A rich old farmer, who felt that he had not many more days to live, called his sons to his bedside.
Who acts: rich old farmer, farmer · What happens: feel, have, live, call · To what, where: rich old farmer · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and His Sons. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rich old farmer, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 farmer | det |
| 2 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmer | amod |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 farmer | amod |
| 4 | farmer | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 felt | punct |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 felt | nsubj |
| 7 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 farmer | acl:relcl |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 had | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 had | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 felt | ccomp |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 many | advmod |
| 12 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 days | amod |
| 13 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 14 days | amod |
| 14 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 had | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 live | mark |
| 16 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 days | acl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
| 18 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 sons | nmod:poss |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 called | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 bedside | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 bedside | nmod:poss |
| 23 | bedside | bedside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 called | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | feel | past | a rich old farmer | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have | past | farmer | day | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | live | to-infinitive | farmer not said here | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | call | participle · passive | a rich old farmer | to farmer's bedside | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP NP»: subject=Theme son=Result |
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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