The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 12

In mournful croaks they begged Jupiter to take away the cruel tyrant before they should all be destroyed.

Who acts: Frogs · What happens: beg, take away, destroy · To what, where: Jupiter, mournful croaks, cruel tyrant, Frogs

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Frogs Who Wished For a King. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Frogs), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 croaks	case
2	mournful	mournful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 croaks	amod
3	croaks	croak	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 begged	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 begged	nsubj
5	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 begged	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 take	mark
8	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 begged	xcomp
9	away	away	ADP	_	8 take	compound:prt
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tyrant	det
11	cruel	cruel	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 tyrant	amod
12	tyrant	tyrant	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 take	obj
13	before	before	SCONJ	_	18 destroyed	mark
14	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 destroyed	nsubj:pass
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 destroyed	aux
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 destroyed	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 destroyed	aux:pass
18	destroyed	destroy	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 take	advcl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	beg speech: request	past	Frogs = frog		Jupiter	mournful croaks		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent jupiter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	take away not said to happen	to-infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here	the cruel tyrant				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tyrant=Theme
3	destroy	should · passive		Frogs = frog			all property	vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=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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