Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 86
After a time he went to the daughter who had married the gardener, and inquired how she was and how all things went with her.
Who acts: man, gardener · What happens: go, marry, inquire, be · To what, where: daughter
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, gardener), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 time | det |
| 3 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 went | nsubj |
| 5 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 daughter | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 daughter | det |
| 8 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 went | obl |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 married | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 married | aux |
| 11 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 daughter | acl:relcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 gardener | det |
| 13 | gardener | gardener | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 married | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inquired | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 inquired | cc |
| 16 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 went | conj |
| 17 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 went | advmod |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 went | cop |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 went | advmod |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 things | det |
| 23 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 went | nsubj |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 inquired | advcl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 her | case |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 went | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | man | time | to the daughter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to daughter=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | marry | past · perfect · passive | the daughter | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | inquire speech: other | past | man not said here | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | gardener | with Justice; go property | tree rules |
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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