Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 63

The brood had almost grown to their full strength and attained the use of their wings and the full plumage of their feathers, when the owner of the field, looking over his ripe crop, said, “The time has come when I must ask all my neighbors to help me with my harvest.”

Who acts: brood, time, I · What happens: grow, attain, look, say, come, ask · To what, where: use, neighbors, me, wings · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (brood, time, I), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 brood	det
2	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grown	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	aux
4	almost	almost	ADV	_	5 grown	advmod
5	grown	grow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 strength	case
7	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 strength	nmod:poss
8	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 strength	amod
9	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 grown	obl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 attained	cc
11	attained	attain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 grown	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 use	det
13	use	use	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 attained	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 wings	case
15	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 wings	nmod:poss
16	wings	wing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 use	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 plumage	cc
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 plumage	det
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 plumage	amod
20	plumage	plumage	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 wings	conj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 feathers	case
22	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 feathers	nmod:poss
23	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 plumage	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 owner	punct
25	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	27 owner	advmod
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 owner	det
27	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 use	appos
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 field	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 field	det
30	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 owner	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 looking	punct
32	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 attained	advcl
33	over	over	ADP	_	36 crop	case
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 crop	nmod:poss
35	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 crop	amod
36	crop	crop	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 looking	obl
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 said	punct
38	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 attained	parataxis
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
40	“	"	PUNCT	_	44 come	punct
41	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 time	det
42	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	44 come	nsubj
43	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	44 come	aux
44	come	come	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	48 ask	advcl
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	48 ask	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 ask	nsubj
47	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	48 ask	aux
48	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 said	ccomp
49	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	51 neighbors	det:predet
50	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 neighbors	nmod:poss
51	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 ask	obj
52	to	to	PART	_	53 help	mark
53	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 ask	advcl
54	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	53 help	obj
55	with	with	ADP	_	57 harvest	case
56	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	57 harvest	nmod:poss
57	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	53 help	obl
58	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct
59	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 grown	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grow	past · perfect	the brood			to Lark's full strength; almost property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	attain	past	the brood not said here	the use of Lark's wings and the full plumage of Lark's feathers			vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent use=Theme
3	look	gerund	the brood not said here			over brood's ripe crop	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over crop=Theme
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	come in a quote	present · perfect	the time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	ask speech: ask in a quote	must	I	my neighbors			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent neighbor=Recipient
7	help in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here		me	with my harvest	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary with harvest=Theme
8	use			Lark's wings and the full plumage of Lark's feathers			nom use «act transitive»: of=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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