Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 125
Not long afterwards the Horse, having become broken-winded, was sent by his owner to the farm.
Who acts: Horse, owner · What happens: have, become, break, send · To what, where: farm
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horse, owner), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 long | advmod |
| 2 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 afterwards | advmod |
| 3 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 8 become | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Horse | det |
| 5 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 become | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 having | punct |
| 7 | having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 Horse | acl |
| 8 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | advcl |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 become | xcomp |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 broken | punct |
| 11 | winded | winded | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 broken | xcomp |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 become | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 owner | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 owner | nmod:poss |
| 17 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 farm | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 farm | det |
| 20 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | the Horse not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | become | present | the Horse | afterwards property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | break | participle | the Horse not said here | winded property | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | send | past · passive | Viper's owner | the farm | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to farm=Destination |
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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