Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 104
It was the time of the wheat harvest; but the Farmer reaped nothing that year and returned home grieving sorely.
Who acts: fatality, Farmer · What happens: be, reap, return, grieve · To what, where: time, nothing
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fatality, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 time | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 harvest | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 harvest | det |
| 7 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 harvest | compound |
| 8 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 time | nmod |
| 9 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 reaped | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 reaped | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Farmer | det |
| 12 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 reaped | nsubj |
| 13 | reaped | reap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 14 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 13 reaped | obj |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 year | det |
| 16 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 nothing | nmod:unmarked |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 returned | cc |
| 18 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 reaped | conj |
| 19 | home | home | ADV | _ | 18 returned | advmod |
| 20 | grieving | grieve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 returned | advcl |
| 21 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 20 grieving | advmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | fatality | the time | of the wheat harvest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reap | past | the Farmer | nothing | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme | ||||
| 3 | return | past | the Farmer not said here | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grieve | gerund | the Farmer not said here | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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