Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 66

The owner of the field came again a few days later and saw the wheat shedding the grain from excess of ripeness.

Who acts: owner, wheat · What happens: come, see, shed · To what, where: wheat, grain, excess

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 (owner, wheat), 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 owner	det
2	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 came	nsubj
3	of	of	ADP	_	5 field	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 field	det
5	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 owner	nmod
6	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	again	again	ADV	_	6 came	advmod
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 days	det
9	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 days	amod
10	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 later	obl:unmarked
11	later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	6 came	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 saw	cc
13	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 came	conj
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 wheat	det
15	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 saw	obj
16	shedding	shed	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 wheat	acl
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 grain	det
18	grain	grain	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shedding	obj
19	from	from	ADP	_	20 excess	case
20	excess	excess	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 shedding	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	22 ripeness	case
22	ripeness	ripeness	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 excess	nmod
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the owner of the field			again	late property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	see	past	the owner of the field not said here	the wheat				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer wheat=Stimulus
3	shed	gerund	the wheat not said here	the grain	excess of ripeness			vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location grain=Source

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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