The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and His Sons, sentence 7

The father died, and no sooner was he in his grave than the sons set to work digging with all their might, turning up every foot of ground with their spades, and going over the whole farm two or three times.

Who acts: father, sons · What happens: die, be, set, work, dig, turn up · To what, where: grave, foot, whole farm

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 (father, sons), 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 father	det
2	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	nsubj
3	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 grave	punct
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 grave	cc
6	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	7 sooner	det
7	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	12 grave	advmod
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 grave	cop
9	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 grave	nsubj
10	in	in	ADP	_	12 grave	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 grave	nmod:poss
12	grave	grave	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 died	obl
13	than	than	SCONJ	_	16 set	mark
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 sons	det
15	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 set	nsubj
16	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 grave	advcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 work	mark
18	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 set	xcomp
19	digging	dig	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 work	xcomp
20	with	with	SCONJ	_	23 might	mark
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	23 might	det:predet
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 might	nmod:poss
23	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 digging	advcl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 turning	punct
25	turning	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 digging	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 turning	compound:prt
27	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	28 foot	det
28	foot	foot	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 turning	obj
29	of	of	ADP	_	30 ground	case
30	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 foot	nmod
31	with	with	ADP	_	33 spades	case
32	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 spades	nmod:poss
33	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 turning	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 going	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 going	cc
36	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 died	advcl
37	over	over	ADP	_	40 farm	case
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 farm	det
39	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 farm	amod
40	farm	farm	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 going	obl
41	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	44 times	nummod
42	or	or	CCONJ	_	43 three	cc
43	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 two	conj
44	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 going	obl:unmarked
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 died	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	die	past	the father					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
2	is	past	father		father's grave		soon property	tree rules
3	set	present	the sons					tree rules
4	work	to-infinitive	the sons not said here					tree rules
5	dig	gerund	the sons not said here					vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn up	gerund	the sons not said here	every foot of ground			with sons's spades	vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with spade=Instrument
7	go	gerund	the father not said here		the whole farm	time		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme over farm=Initial_Location

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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