The Aesop for Children, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf, sentence 1

One day a Stag came to a Sheep and asked her to lend him a measure of wheat.

Who acts: Stag · What happens: come, ask, lend, measure · To what, where: Stag, measure, Sheep, wheat

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Stag, the Sheep, and the Wolf. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stag), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl:unmarked
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 Stag	det
4	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 came	nsubj
5	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Sheep	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Sheep	det
8	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 asked	cc
10	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 came	conj
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 asked	iobj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 lend	mark
13	lend	lend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 asked	xcomp
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 lend	obj
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 measure	det
16	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 lend	obj
17	of	of	ADP	_	18 wheat	case
18	wheat	wheat	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 measure	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	come	past	a Stag			day	to a Sheep	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sheep=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	a Stag not said here		Stag			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	lend not said to happen	to-infinitive	a Stag not said here	a measure of wheat	Sheep			vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient measure=Theme
4	measure			wheat				nom measure «act transitive»: of=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: «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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