Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 55

Later on in the day they sat down to eat, and the food prepared was quite scalding.

Who acts: hands, food · What happens: sit down, eat, prepare, be · To what, where: food, scalding

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 (hands, food), 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	Later	late	ADV	Degree=Cmp	7 sat	advmod
2	on	on	ADP	_	5 day	case
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 day	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 day	det
5	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	obl
6	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 sat	nsubj
7	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	down	down	ADP	_	7 sat	compound:prt
9	to	to	PART	_	10 eat	mark
10	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 sat	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 scalding	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 scalding	cc
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 food	det
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 scalding	nsubj
15	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 food	acl
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 scalding	cop
17	quite	quite	ADV	_	18 scalding	advmod
18	scalding	scalding	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 sat	conj
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	sit down	past	hands = hand		day	late property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	eat	to-infinitive	hands = hand not said here				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	prepare	participle		the food not said here			vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	is a	past	the food	scalding			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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