The Aesop for Children, The Shepherd and the Lion, sentence 8
To find the thief I offered to sacrifice a fat Calf.
Who acts: I · What happens: find, offer, sacrifice · To what, where: thief, fat Calf
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Shepherd and the Lion. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | To | to | PART | _ | 2 find | mark |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 thief | det |
| 4 | thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 find | obj |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 offered | nsubj |
| 6 | offered | offer | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thief | acl:relcl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 sacrifice | mark |
| 8 | sacrifice | sacrifice | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 offered | xcomp |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Calf | det |
| 10 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Calf | amod |
| 11 | Calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sacrifice | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | to-infinitive | the thief | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thief=Topic | |||||
| 2 | offer | past | I | the thief not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sacrifice not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | a fat Calf | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent calf=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: «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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