Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 32

He next opened the faggot, took the sticks separately, one by one, and again put them into his sons’ hands, upon which they broke them easily.

Who acts: Grasshopper, Father · What happens: open, take, put, break · To what, where: faggot, sticks, hands

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 (Grasshopper, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 opened	nsubj
2	next	next	ADV	_	3 opened	advmod
3	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 faggot	det
5	faggot	faggot	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 opened	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 took	punct
7	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 sticks	det
9	sticks	stick	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 took	obj
10	separately	separately	ADV	_	7 took	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 one	punct
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 took	conj
13	by	by	ADP	_	14 one	case
14	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 put	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 put	cc
17	again	again	ADV	_	18 put	advmod
18	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 opened	advcl
19	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 put	obj
20	into	into	ADP	_	24 hands	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 sons	nmod:poss
22	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 hands	nmod:poss
23	’	's	PART	_	22 sons	case
24	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 put	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 broke	punct
26	upon	upon	ADP	_	27 which	case
27	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 broke	obl
28	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 broke	nsubj
29	broke	break	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 opened	conj
30	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 broke	obj
31	easily	easily	ADV	_	29 broke	advmod
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	open	past	Grasshopper	the faggot			next property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location faggot=Theme
2	take	past	Grasshopper not said here	the sticks			separately property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stick=Theme
3	put	infinitive	Grasshopper not said here	sticks = stick	Grasshopper's sons's hands	again		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent they=Goal
4	break	past	Father	sticks = stick			easily property	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=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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