The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Jackdaw, sentence 8
That evening he gave the Jackdaw to his children.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: give · To what, where: Jackdaw, children
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Jackdaw. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Shepherd), 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 | That | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 evening | det |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 gave | nsubj |
| 4 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Jackdaw | det |
| 6 | Jackdaw | Jackdaw | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 children | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 children | nmod:poss |
| 9 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 gave | obl |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Shepherd | the Jackdaw | Shepherd's children | evening | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent jackdaw=Theme to child=Recipient |
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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