Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 62
A LARK had made her nest in the early spring on the young green wheat.
What happens: make · To what, where: LARK
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: 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 LARK | det |
| 2 | LARK | lark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 nest | nmod:poss |
| 6 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 spring | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spring | det |
| 9 | early | early | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 spring | amod |
| 10 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | obl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 wheat | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 wheat | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wheat | amod |
| 14 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 wheat | amod |
| 15 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spring | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past · perfect · passive | a LARK | spring | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary nest=Product |
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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