The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Snake, sentence 1
A Farmer walked through his field one cold winter morning.
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: walk · To what, where: field
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Snake. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 2 Farmer | det |
| 2 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | nsubj |
| 3 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | through | through | ADP | _ | 6 field | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 field | nmod:poss |
| 6 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl |
| 7 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 morning | nummod |
| 8 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 morning | amod |
| 9 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 morning | compound |
| 10 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 walked | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | past | a Farmer | Farmer's field | morning | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through field=Trajectory |
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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