Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 28

A CERTAIN poor widow had one solitary Sheep.

Who acts: CERTAIN poor widow · What happens: have · To what, where: solitary Sheep

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 (CERTAIN poor widow), 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	4 widow	det
2	CERTAIN	certain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 widow	amod
3	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 widow	amod
4	widow	widow	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 had	nsubj
5	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 solitary	nummod
7	solitary	solitary	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 Sheep	compound
8	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 had	obj
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	past	a CERTAIN poor widow	solitary Sheep					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sheep=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.

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