The Aesop for Children, The Spendthrift and the Swallow, sentence 4

Just then a Swallow flew by, twittering merrily, and the young man, thinking summer had come, hastened off to a clothes dealer, to whom he sold all the clothes he wore down to his very tunic.

Who acts: Swallow, summer · What happens: fly by, twitter, think, come, hasten off, sell · To what, where: young man, clothes dealer, clothes · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Swallow, summer), 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	Just	just	ADV	_	5 flew	advmod
2	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	5 flew	advmod
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Swallow	det
4	Swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 flew	nsubj
5	flew	fly	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	by	by	ADP	_	5 flew	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 twittering	punct
8	twittering	twitter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 flew	advcl
9	merrily	merrily	ADV	_	8 twittering	advmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 man	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 man	cc
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 twittering	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 thinking	punct
16	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 twittering	conj
17	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 come	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	aux
19	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 thinking	ccomp
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hastened	punct
21	hastened	hasten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 come	conj
22	off	off	ADP	_	21 hastened	compound:prt
23	to	to	ADP	_	26 dealer	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 dealer	det
25	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	26 dealer	compound
26	dealer	dealer	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 hastened	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 sold	punct
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 whom	case
29	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 sold	obl
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 sold	nsubj
31	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 come	conj
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	34 clothes	det:predet
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 clothes	det
34	clothes	clothes	NOUN	Number=Ptan	31 sold	obj
35	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	36 wore	nsubj
36	wore	wear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 sold	parataxis
37	down	down	ADV	_	36 wore	advmod
38	to	to	ADP	_	41 tunic	case
39	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 tunic	nmod:poss
40	very	very	ADV	_	41 tunic	advmod
41	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 wore	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 flew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	fly by	past	a Swallow			then		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	twitter	gerund	a Swallow not said here	the young man			merrily property	vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	a Swallow not said here					vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
4	come	past · perfect	summer					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	hasten off	participle	summer not said here		a clothes dealer			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to dealer=Destination
6	sell	past	Swallow	all clothes				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent clothes=Theme to whom=Recipient
7	wear down	past	Swallow				to Swallow's tunic; down property	vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=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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