Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 6
A FARMER placed nets on his newly-sown plowlands and caught a number of Cranes, which came to pick up his seed.
Who acts: FARMER, Cranes · What happens: place, sow, catch, come, pick up · To what, where: nets, sown plowlands, number, seed
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 (FARMER, Cranes), 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 FARMER | det |
| 2 | FARMER | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | placed | place | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 FARMER | acl |
| 4 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 plowlands | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 plowlands | nmod:poss |
| 7 | newly | newly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sown | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 newly | punct |
| 9 | sown | sow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 plowlands | amod |
| 10 | plowlands | plowland | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 placed | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 caught | cc |
| 12 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 placed | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 number | det |
| 14 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 caught | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Cranes | case |
| 16 | Cranes | crane | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 number | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 Cranes | acl:relcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 pick | mark |
| 21 | pick | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 came | xcomp |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 pick | compound:prt |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 seed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | seed | seed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 pick | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 FARMER | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | place | participle | a FARMER not said here | nets | Stork's sown plowlands | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent net=Theme on plowland=Destination | |||
| 2 | sow | participle | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | catch | past | a FARMER not said here | a number of Cranes | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 4 | come | past | Cranes | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pick up | to-infinitive | Cranes not said here | Stork's seed | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seed=Topic |
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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