Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 104

She let him lie uninterred for five days, and on the sixth day, not knowing what else to do, she buried him in her own head.

Who acts: Lark, Father · What happens: let, lie, uninterr, not know, do, bury · To what, where: Father, own head

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lark, Father), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	obj
4	lie	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 let	xcomp
5	uninterred	uninterr	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 lie	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 days	case
7	five	five	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 days	nummod
8	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 uninterred	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 day	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 day	cc
11	on	on	ADP	_	14 day	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
13	sixth	sixth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 day	amod
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 let	obl:unmarked
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 knowing	punct
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	17 knowing	advmod
17	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 day	advcl
18	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	21 do	obj
19	else	else	ADV	_	18 what	advmod
20	to	to	PART	_	21 do	mark
21	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 knowing	xcomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 buried	punct
23	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 buried	nsubj
24	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	parataxis
25	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 buried	obj
26	in	in	ADP	_	29 head	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 head	nmod:poss
28	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 head	amod
29	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 buried	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	let	infinitive	Lark	Father		day	tree rules
2	lie	infinitive	Father not said here				tree rules
3	uninterr	participle	Father not said here			day	tree rules
4	not know	gerund	Lark not said here				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	to-infinitive	Lark not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
6	bury	past	Lark	Father	Lark's own head		vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme in head=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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