Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 92
The Farmer, wishing to catch him, shut the gate.
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: wish, catch, shut · To what, where: Farmer, gate
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 (Farmer), 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 Farmer | det |
| 2 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 wishing | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Farmer | punct |
| 4 | wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 catch | mark |
| 6 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wishing | xcomp |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 catch | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 shut | punct |
| 9 | shut | shut | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 catch | conj |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gate | det |
| 11 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 shut | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wishing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | gerund | the Farmer | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Farmer not said here | Farmer | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shut | infinitive | the Farmer not said here | the gate | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent gate=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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