The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Snake, sentence 3
The Farmer knew how deadly the Snake could be, and yet he picked it up and put it in his bosom to warm it back to life.
Who acts: Farmer, Snake · What happens: know, be, pick up, put, warm back, bosom · To what, where: cold, bosom · Speech: someone speaks here
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, Snake), 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 Farmer | det |
| 2 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 knew | nsubj |
| 3 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 deadly | advmod |
| 5 | deadly | deadly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 knew | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Snake | det |
| 7 | Snake | Snake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 be | nsubj |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 be | aux |
| 9 | be | be | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 deadly | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 picked | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 picked | cc |
| 12 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 14 picked | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 picked | nsubj |
| 14 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 knew | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 picked | obj |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 picked | compound:prt |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 put | cc |
| 18 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 picked | conj |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 put | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 bosom | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 bosom | nmod:poss |
| 22 | bosom | bosom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 put | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 warm | mark |
| 24 | warm | warm | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 put | advcl |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 warm | obj |
| 26 | back | back | ADV | _ | 24 warm | advmod |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 life | case |
| 28 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 warm | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 knew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | past | the Farmer | deadly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | can | could | the Snake | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | pick up | past | Snake | cold | yet | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 4 | put | infinitive | Snake not said here | cold | Snake's bosom | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in bosom=Destination | |||
| 5 | warm back | to-infinitive | Snake not said here | cold | to life | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient | |||
| 6 | bosom | Snake | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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