Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 126

The chickens will become ready for the market when poultry will fetch the highest price, so that by the end of the year I shall have money enough from my share to buy a new gown.

Who acts: chickens, poultry, I, my · What happens: become, fetch, have, buy, share · To what, where: highest price, money, new gown

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 (chickens, poultry, I, my), 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 chickens	det
2	chickens	chicken	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 become	aux
4	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	ready	ready	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 become	xcomp
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 market	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 market	det
8	market	market	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 ready	obl
9	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	12 fetch	advmod
10	poultry	poultry	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fetch	nsubj
11	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 fetch	aux
12	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 become	xcomp
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 price	det
14	highest	high	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 price	amod
15	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 fetch	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 have	punct
17	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 have	mark
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 so	fixed
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 end	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 end	det
21	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 year	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 year	det
24	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 end	nmod
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 have	nsubj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 have	aux
27	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 fetch	conj
28	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	obj
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	32 share	advmod
30	from	from	ADP	_	32 share	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 share	nmod:poss
32	share	share	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 have	advcl
33	to	to	PART	_	34 buy	mark
34	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	32 share	acl
35	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 gown	det
36	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 gown	amod
37	gown	gown	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 buy	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 become	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	become	future	the chickens			ready property	tree rules
2	fetch	future	poultry	the highest price			vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent price=Theme
3	have	shall	I	money	by the end of the year		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Patient
4	buy	to-infinitive	I not said here	a new gown			vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gown=Theme
5	share		my				nom share «possession transitive»: 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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