The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 4
So they sent a petition to Jupiter asking for a king.
Who acts: Frogs · What happens: send, ask · To what, where: petition, Jupiter
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 sent | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 petition | det |
| 5 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 Jupiter | case |
| 7 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 sent | obl |
| 8 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 sent | advcl |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 king | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 king | det |
| 11 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asking | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | past | Frogs = frog | a petition | Jupiter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent petition=Theme to jupiter=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Frogs = frog not said here | for a king | vn inquire-37.1.2 «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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