The Aesop for Children, The Spendthrift and the Swallow, sentence 2
Then one fine day in early spring he found himself with not a penny left, and no property save the clothes he wore.
Who acts: fellow, property · What happens: find, leave, save, wear · To what, where: fellow, penny, clothes
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Spendthrift and the Swallow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fellow, property), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 day | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 day | nummod |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 spring | case |
| 6 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 spring | amod |
| 7 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 day | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 found | nsubj |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 penny | case |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 penny | advmod |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 penny | det |
| 14 | penny | penny | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 15 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 penny | acl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 save | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 save | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 property | det |
| 19 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 save | nsubj |
| 20 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 found | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 clothes | det |
| 22 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 20 save | obj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 wore | nsubj |
| 24 | wore | wear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | fellow | fellow | day | with a penny | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | leave | participle | a penny not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | save | infinitive | no property | the clothes | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme | ||||
| 4 | wear | past | fellow | the clothes not said here | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent clothes=Source |
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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