The Aesop for Children, The Goose and the Golden Egg, sentence 3
But it was not long before he grew impatient with the Goose because she gave him only a single golden egg a day.
Who acts: egg, Countryman, Goose · What happens: not be, grow, give · To what, where: single golden egg, Countryman
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 (egg, Countryman, Goose), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 grew | cc |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 long | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 long | cop |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 long | advmod |
| 5 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | advmod |
| 6 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 8 grew | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | impatient | impatient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 Goose | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Goose | det |
| 12 | Goose | goose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 impatient | obl |
| 13 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 15 gave | mark |
| 14 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | nsubj |
| 15 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | advcl |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 gave | iobj |
| 17 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 egg | advmod |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 egg | det |
| 19 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 egg | amod |
| 20 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 egg | amod |
| 21 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gave | obj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 day | det |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 egg | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not is | past | egg | long property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | grow | past | Countryman | impatient property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | past | Goose | a single golden egg | Countryman | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient egg=Theme |
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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