The Aesop for Children, The Spendthrift and the Swallow, sentence 5

A few days later a change in weather brought a severe frost; and the poor swallow and that foolish young man in his light tunic, and with his arms and knees bare, could scarcely keep life in their shivering bodies.

Who acts: change, that · What happens: bring, man, keep · To what, where: severe frost, light tunic, life, shivering bodies

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 (change, that), 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	3 days	det
2	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 days	amod
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 later	obl:unmarked
4	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	9 brought	advmod
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 change	det
6	change	change	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	nsubj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 weather	case
8	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 change	nmod
9	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 frost	det
11	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 frost	amod
12	frost	frost	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	obj
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 swallow	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 swallow	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 swallow	det
16	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swallow	amod
17	swallow	swallow	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 brought	advcl
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 man	cc
19	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	22 man	nsubj
20	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
21	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 man	amod
22	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 swallow	conj
23	in	in	ADP	_	26 tunic	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 tunic	nmod:poss
25	light	light	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 tunic	amod
26	tunic	tunic	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 man	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 keep	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 keep	cc
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 arms	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 arms	nmod:poss
31	arms	arm	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 keep	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 knees	cc
33	knees	knee	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 arms	conj
34	bare	bare	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 knees	amod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 arms	punct
36	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 keep	aux
37	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	38 keep	advmod
38	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 swallow	conj
39	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 keep	obj
40	in	in	ADP	_	43 bodies	case
41	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 bodies	nmod:poss
42	shivering	shivering	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 bodies	compound
43	bodies	body	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 keep	obl
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 brought	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bring	past	a change in weather	a severe frost		late property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent frost=Theme
2	man		that		Swallow's light tunic		tree rules
3	keep	could	a change in weather not said here	life	men's shivering bodies	with Swallow's arms and knees; scarcely property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent life=Theme in body=Location

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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