The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 12

They had not gone ten paces before the Earthen Pot cracked, and at the next jolt he flew into a thousand pieces.

Who acts: Pots, Earthen Pot, two · What happens: not go, crack, fly · To what, where: ten paces, next jolt

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pots, Earthen Pot, two), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 gone	nsubj
2	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	aux
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 gone	advmod
4	gone	go	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	ten	ten	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 paces	nummod
6	paces	pace	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 gone	obj
7	before	before	SCONJ	_	11 cracked	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Pot	det
9	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 Pot	compound
10	Pot	Pot	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 cracked	nsubj
11	cracked	crack	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 gone	advcl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 flew	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 flew	cc
14	at	at	ADP	_	17 jolt	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 jolt	det
16	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 jolt	amod
17	jolt	jolt	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 flew	obl
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 flew	nsubj
19	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 cracked	conj
20	into	into	ADP	_	23 pieces	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 thousand	det
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	23 pieces	nummod
23	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 flew	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 gone	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	not go	past · perfect	Pots = pot	ten paces			vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pace=Theme
2	crack	past	the Earthen Pot				vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location
3	fly	past	two		the next jolt	into thousand pieces	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V NP.theme PP»: agent=Agent at jolt=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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