Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 130

A BOY put his hand into a pitcher full of filberts.

Who acts: BOY · What happens: put · To what, where: hand, pitcher

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 (BOY), 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 BOY	det
2	BOY	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 hand	nmod:poss
5	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	into	into	ADP	_	8 pitcher	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 pitcher	det
8	pitcher	pitcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 pitcher	amod
10	of	of	ADP	_	11 filberts	case
11	filberts	filbert	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 full	obl
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	a BOY	Sheep's hand		a pitcher			vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent hand=Goal

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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