Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 30

When they had done so, he placed the faggot into the hands of each of them in succession, and ordered them to break it in pieces.

Who acts: Father, Grasshopper · What happens: do, place, order, break · To what, where: faggot, hands, Father, pieces

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Father, Grasshopper), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 done	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 done	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 done	aux
4	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 placed	advcl
5	so	so	ADV	_	4 done	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 done	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 placed	nsubj
8	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 faggot	det
10	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obj
11	into	into	ADP	_	13 hands	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hands	det
13	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 placed	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 each	case
15	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	13 hands	nmod
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 them	case
17	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 each	nmod
18	in	in	ADP	_	19 succession	case
19	succession	succession	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 ordered	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 ordered	cc
22	ordered	order	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	parataxis
23	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 ordered	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 break	mark
25	break	break	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 ordered	xcomp
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 break	obj
27	in	in	ADP	_	28 pieces	case
28	pieces	piece	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 break	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	do	past · perfect	Father					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	place	past	Grasshopper	the faggot		the hands of each	in succession	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent faggot=Theme in succession=Destination
3	order	past			Father			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
4	break not said to happen	to-infinitive		faggot		pieces		vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Patient

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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