Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 10

The sons, after his death, took their spades and mattocks and carefully dug over every portion of their land.

Who acts: sons, monster · What happens: take, dig, die · To what, where: spades, portion

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sons, monster), 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 sons	det
2	sons	son	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 death	punct
4	after	after	ADP	_	6 death	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 death	nmod:poss
6	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sons	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 sons	punct
8	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 spades	nmod:poss
10	spades	spade	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 took	obj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 mattocks	cc
12	mattocks	mattock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 spades	conj
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 dug	cc
14	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	15 dug	advmod
15	dug	dig	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 took	conj
16	over	over	ADP	_	18 portion	case
17	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	18 portion	det
18	portion	portion	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 dug	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 land	case
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 land	nmod:poss
21	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 portion	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 took	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past	the sons after monster's death	sons's spades and mattocks			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spade=Theme
2	dig	participle	the sons after monster's death not said here		every portion of sons's land	carefully property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent over portion=Location
3	die		monster				nom death «event 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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