Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 117

A MISER sold all that he had and bought a lump of gold, which he buried in a hole in the ground by the side of an old wall and went to look at daily.

Who acts: MISER, Lion · What happens: sell, have, buy, bury, go, look · To what, where: all, lump, hole

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MISER, Lion), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 MISER	det
2	MISER	miser	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	sold	sell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 MISER	acl
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	3 sold	obl
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 had	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 had	nsubj
7	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sold	advcl
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 bought	cc
9	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 had	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 lump	det
11	lump	lump	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 bought	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 gold	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 lump	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 buried	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 buried	obj
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 buried	nsubj
17	buried	bury	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 lump	conj
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 hole	case
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 hole	det
20	hole	hole	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 buried	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 ground	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 ground	det
23	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 buried	obl
24	by	by	ADP	_	26 side	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 side	det
26	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 buried	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	30 wall	case
28	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 wall	det
29	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 wall	amod
30	wall	wall	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 side	nmod
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 went	cc
32	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 bought	conj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 look	mark
34	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 went	xcomp
35	at	at	ADP	_	36 daily	case
36	daily	daily	ADV	_	34 look	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 MISER	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	sell	participle	a MISER not said here	all			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
2	have	past	Lion				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	buy	past	Lion not said here	a lump of gold			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lump=Theme
4	bury	past	Lion	a lump of gold	a hole	in the ground; by the side of a old wall	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent which=Theme in hole=Destination
5	go	past	Lion not said here				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	look	to-infinitive	Lion not said here				vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at daily=Theme

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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