Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 16

A GROOM used to spend whole days in currycombing and rubbing down his Horse, but at the same time stole his oats and sold them for his own profit.

Who acts: GROOM · What happens: use, spend, currycomb, rub down, steal, sell · To what, where: GROOM, Horse, oats

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (GROOM), 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 GROOM	det
2	GROOM	groom	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stole	nsubj
3	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 GROOM	acl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 spend	mark
5	spend	spend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 used	xcomp
6	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 days	amod
7	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 spend	obj
8	in	in	SCONJ	_	9 currycombing	mark
9	currycombing	currycomb	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 spend	advcl
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 rubbing	cc
11	rubbing	rub	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 currycombing	conj
12	down	down	ADP	_	11 rubbing	compound:prt
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 Horse	nmod:poss
14	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 rubbing	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 stole	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 stole	cc
17	at	at	ADP	_	20 time	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 time	det
19	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 time	amod
20	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 stole	obl
21	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 oats	nmod:poss
23	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 stole	obj
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sold	cc
25	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 stole	conj
26	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sold	obj
27	for	for	ADP	_	30 profit	case
28	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 profit	nmod:poss
29	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 profit	amod
30	profit	profit	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sold	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	use	participle		a GROOM not said here				vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	spend	to-infinitive				day		vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	currycomb	gerund						tree rules
4	rub down	gerund			Groom's Horse			vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Destination
5	steal	past	a GROOM	Groom's oats		time		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location oat=Theme
6	sell	past	a GROOM not said here	Horse			for Groom's own profit	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent they=Theme for profit=Asset
7	profit		Groom					nom profit «possession intransitive»: poss=agent

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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