Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 52
A COTTAGER and his wife had a Hen that laid a golden egg every day.
Who acts: COTTAGER, Hen · What happens: have, lay · To what, where: Hen, golden 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 (COTTAGER, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 COTTAGER | det |
| 2 | COTTAGER | cottager | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 wife | cc |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wife | nmod:poss |
| 5 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 COTTAGER | conj |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Hen | det |
| 8 | Hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 laid | nsubj |
| 10 | laid | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Hen | acl:relcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 egg | det |
| 12 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 egg | amod |
| 13 | egg | egg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obj |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 laid | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | a COTTAGER and king's wife | a Hen | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hen=Patient | ||||
| 2 | lay | past | a Hen | a golden egg | day | 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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