Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 91

A BOY stole a lesson-book from one of his schoolfellows and took it home to his Mother.

Who acts: BOY · What happens: steal, take · To what, where: lesson book, book, Mother

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 (BOY), 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 BOY	det
2	BOY	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	nsubj
3	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 book	det
5	lesson	lesson	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 book	compound
6	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 lesson	punct
7	book	book	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 stole	obj
8	from	from	ADP	_	9 one	case
9	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 stole	obl
10	of	of	ADP	_	12 schoolfellows	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 schoolfellows	nmod:poss
12	schoolfellows	schoolfellow	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 one	nmod
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 took	cc
14	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 stole	conj
15	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 took	obj
16	home	home	ADV	_	14 took	advmod
17	to	to	ADP	_	19 Mother	case
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 Mother	nmod:poss
19	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 took	obl
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	steal	past	a BOY	a lesson book				from one of BOY's schoolfellows	vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent book=Theme from one=Source
2	take	past	a BOY not said here	book	BOY's Mother			home property	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to mother=Destination

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/pg21/6/91/