Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 123
A FARMER’S daughter was carrying her Pail of milk from the field to the farmhouse, when she fell a-musing.
Who acts: daughter · What happens: carry, fall · To what, where: Pail, field, musing
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (daughter), 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 FARMER | det |
| 2 | FARMER | farmer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 daughter | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’S | 's | PART | _ | 2 FARMER | case |
| 4 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carrying | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carrying | aux |
| 6 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 Pail | nmod:poss |
| 8 | Pail | pail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carrying | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 milk | case |
| 10 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Pail | nmod |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 field | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 field | det |
| 13 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carrying | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 farmhouse | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 farmhouse | det |
| 16 | farmhouse | farmhouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 carrying | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fell | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 fell | advmod |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 fell | nsubj |
| 20 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 carrying | conj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 musing | det |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 a | punct |
| 23 | musing | musing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fell | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 carrying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past · progressive | a FARMER's daughter | daughter's Pail of milk | the field | to the farmhouse | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent pail=Theme from field=Initial_Location to farmhouse=Destination | ||
| 2 | fall | past | daughter | a musing | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient musing=Result |
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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