Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 85

A MAN had two daughters, the one married to a gardener, and the other to a tile-maker.

Who acts: MAN · What happens: have, marry · To what, where: two daughters, one

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 (MAN), 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 MAN	det
2	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 had	nsubj
3	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	5 daughters	nummod
5	daughters	daughter	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 had	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 one	det
8	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 daughters	appos
9	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 one	acl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 gardener	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 gardener	det
12	gardener	gardener	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 married	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 other	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 other	cc
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 other	det
16	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 had	parataxis
17	to	to	ADP	_	21 maker	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 maker	det
19	tile	tile	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 maker	compound
20	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 tile	punct
21	maker	maker	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 other	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a MAN	two daughters					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent daughter=Patient
2	marry	participle		the one not said here				to a gardener	vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent to gardener=Co-Patient

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.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/6/85/