The Aesop for Children, The Farmer and the Stork, sentence 3
The Stork begged the Farmer to spare him.
Who acts: Stork · What happens: beg, spare · To what, where: Farmer
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Farmer and the Stork. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Stork), 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 Stork | det |
| 2 | Stork | Stork | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | nsubj |
| 3 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Farmer | det |
| 5 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 begged | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 spare | mark |
| 7 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 begged | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spare | obj |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 begged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | past | the Stork | the Farmer | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent farmer=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | the Stork not said here | Farmer | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Asset |
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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