The Aesop for Children, The Dog and the Oyster, sentence 2

He visited the hen house very often and at last got so greedy that he would swallow the eggs whole.

Who acts: Dog · What happens: visit, get, swallow · To what, where: hen house, last, eggs

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Dog and the Oyster. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 visited	nsubj
2	visited	visit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 house	det
4	hen	hen	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 house	compound
5	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 visited	obj
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 often	advmod
7	often	often	ADV	_	2 visited	advmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 got	cc
9	at	at	ADP	_	10 last	case
10	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 got	obl
11	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 visited	conj
12	so	so	ADV	_	13 greedy	advmod
13	greedy	greedy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 got	xcomp
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 swallow	mark
15	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 swallow	nsubj
16	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 swallow	aux
17	swallow	swallow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 greedy	advcl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 eggs	det
19	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 swallow	obj
20	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 swallow	xcomp
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 visited	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	visit	past	Dog	the hen house		often property	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Co-Agent
2	get	past	Dog not said here		last	greedy property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
3	swallow	would	Dog	the eggs		whole property	vn gobble-39.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Patient

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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