Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 17

The Owl next advised them to pluck up the seed of the flax, which men had sown, as it was a plant which boded no good to them.

Who acts: Owl, poison, acorn, plant · What happens: advise, pluck up, sow, be, bode · To what, where: poison, seed, flax, good

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 (Owl, poison, acorn, plant), 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 Owl	det
2	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 advised	nsubj
3	next	next	ADV	_	4 advised	advmod
4	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 advised	obj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 pluck	mark
7	pluck	pluck	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 advised	xcomp
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 pluck	compound:prt
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 seed	det
10	seed	seed	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pluck	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	13 flax	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 flax	det
13	flax	flax	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 seed	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sown	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	18 sown	nsubj:pass
16	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 sown	nsubj
17	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 sown	aux
18	sown	sow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 flax	acl:relcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 plant	punct
20	as	as	ADP	_	24 plant	case
21	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 plant	nsubj
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 plant	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 plant	det
24	plant	plant	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 sown	obl
25	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	26 boded	nsubj
26	boded	bode	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 plant	acl:relcl
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 good	det
28	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 boded	obj
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 them	case
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 good	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 advised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	advise speech: other	past	the Owl	poison	next property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	pluck up not said to happen	to-infinitive	poison not said here	the seed of the flax		vn braid-41.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Patient
3	sow	past · perfect · passive		the flax		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme
4	is	past	acorn		as a plant	tree rules
5	bode	past	a plant	no good		tree rules

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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