The Aesop for Children, The Porcupine and the Snakes, sentence 3

He asked them to let him share the cave with them, and the Snakes kindly consented.

Who acts: Porcupine, Snakes · What happens: ask, let, share, consent · To what, where: Snakes, Porcupine, cave

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Porcupine and the Snakes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Porcupine, Snakes), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	nsubj
2	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 asked	obj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 let	mark
5	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 asked	xcomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 let	obj
7	share	share	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 let	xcomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 cave	det
9	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 share	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 them	case
11	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 share	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 consented	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 consented	cc
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Snakes	det
15	Snakes	snake	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 consented	nsubj
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	17 consented	advmod
17	consented	consent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 asked	conj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	Porcupine		Snakes = snake		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let not said to happen	to-infinitive	Porcupine not said here	Porcupine			tree rules
3	share	infinitive	Porcupine not said here	the cave		with Snakes = snake	tree rules
4	consent	participle	the Snakes			kindly property	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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