Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 96

AT ONE TIME the Horse had the plain entirely to himself.

Who acts: Horse · What happens: have · To what, where: plain

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horse), 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	AT	at	ADP	_	3 TIME	case
2	ONE	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 TIME	nummod
3	TIME	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Horse	det
5	Horse	Horse	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 had	nsubj
6	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 plain	det
8	plain	plain	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 had	obj
9	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	6 had	advmod
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 himself	case
11	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 entirely	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	the Horse	the plain			time	entirely property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plain=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: «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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