The Aesop for Children, Mercury and the Woodman, sentence 3
He had been working since sunrise and his strokes were not so sure as they had been early that morning.
Who acts: He, strokes, his · What happens: work, not be, be, stroke · To what, where: morning
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Mercury and the Woodman. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (He, strokes, his), 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 | 4 working | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 working | aux |
| 3 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 working | aux |
| 4 | working | work | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | since | since | ADP | _ | 6 sunrise | case |
| 6 | sunrise | sunrise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 working | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 sure | cc |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 strokes | nmod:poss |
| 9 | strokes | stroke | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 sure | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 sure | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 sure | advmod |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 sure | advmod |
| 13 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 working | conj |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 morning | mark |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 morning | nsubj |
| 16 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 morning | aux |
| 17 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 morning | cop |
| 18 | early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 20 morning | advmod |
| 19 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 morning | det |
| 20 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 working | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | work | past · perfect · progressive | He | sunrise | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | not is | past | his strokes | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | past · perfect | strokes = stroke | that morning | early property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | stroke | his = he | nom stroke «act transitive»: poss=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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