Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 61
The Farmer, on seeing this, charged his sling with stones, and killed a great number.
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: see, charge, kill · To what, where: this, sling, great number
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Farmer | det |
| 2 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 charged | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farmer | punct |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 seeing | mark |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Farmer | acl |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 seeing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farmer | punct |
| 8 | charged | charge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 sling | nmod:poss |
| 10 | sling | sling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 charged | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 stones | case |
| 12 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 charged | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 killed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 charged | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 number | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 number | amod |
| 18 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 killed | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 charged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the Farmer not said here | this | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | charge | past | the Farmer | oxen's sling | with stones | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent sling=Recipient with stone=Theme | |||
| 3 | kill | past | the Farmer not said here | a great number | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=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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