Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 134

When the time came for killing the Goose, the cook went to get him at night, when it was dark, and he was not able to distinguish one bird from the other.

Who acts: time, cook, Goose · What happens: come, kill, go, get, be, not be · To what, where: Goose, one bird

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, cook, Goose), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 went	advcl
5	for	for	SCONJ	_	6 killing	mark
6	killing	kill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 came	advcl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Goose	det
8	Goose	Goose	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 killing	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 cook	det
11	cook	cook	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 went	nsubj
12	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	PART	_	14 get	mark
14	get	get	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 went	xcomp
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 get	obj
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 night	case
17	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 get	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 dark	punct
19	when	when	SCONJ	_	22 dark	mark
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 dark	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 dark	cop
22	dark	dark	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 get	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 able	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 able	cc
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 able	nsubj
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 able	cop
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	28 able	advmod
28	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 dark	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 distinguish	mark
30	distinguish	distinguish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 able	xcomp
31	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 bird	nummod
32	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 distinguish	obj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 other	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 other	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 distinguish	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	the time				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	kill	gerund	the time not said here	the Goose			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goose=Theme
3	go	past	the cook				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	get	to-infinitive	the cook not said here	Goose	night		vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	is	past	cook			dark property	tree rules
6	not is	past	Goose			able property	tree rules
7	distinguish	to-infinitive	Goose not said here	one bird		from the other	vn distinguish-23.5-1 «NP V NP.theme PP.co-theme»: agent=Agent bird=Theme from other=Co-Theme

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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