Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 134
The Workman, on his return to his house, related to his companions all that had happened.
Who acts: Workman, Jackdaw · What happens: happen, return
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 (Workman, Jackdaw), 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 Workman | det |
| 2 | Workman | Workman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 return | punct |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 return | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 return | nmod:poss |
| 6 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Workman | appos |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 return | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 related | punct |
| 11 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 return | amod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 companions | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 companions | nmod:poss |
| 14 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 related | obl |
| 15 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 18 happened | det:predet |
| 16 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 happened | nsubj |
| 17 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 happened | aux |
| 18 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past · perfect | the Workman | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | return | Jackdaw | to Jackdaw's house | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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