Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 116

From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

Who acts: Hen · What happens: become, lay · To what, where: egg

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hen), 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	From	from	ADP	_	3 day	case
2	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 day	det
3	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 became	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Hen	det
5	Hen	Hen	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 became	nsubj
6	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	fat	fat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 became	xcomp
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 sleek	cc
9	sleek	sleek	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 fat	conj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 laid	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 laid	cc
12	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	13 once	advmod
13	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	14 laid	advmod
14	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 became	conj
15	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	16 egg	det
16	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 laid	obj
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	become	past	the Hen				day	fat property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
2	lay	past	the Hen not said here	another egg				once property	vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Result

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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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