The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 2
The Countryman took the eggs to market and soon began to get rich.
Who acts: Countryman · What happens: take, begin, get · To what, where: eggs, market
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Goose and the Golden Egg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Countryman), 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 Countryman | det |
| 2 | Countryman | Countryman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 eggs | det |
| 5 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 market | case |
| 7 | market | market | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 began | cc |
| 9 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 began | advmod |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 get | mark |
| 12 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 get | xcomp |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Countryman | the eggs | market | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent egg=Theme to market=Destination | |||
| 2 | begin | past | the Countryman not said here | soon property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | the Countryman not said here | rich property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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