The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 5

Jupiter saw what simple and foolish creatures they were, but to keep them quiet and make them think they had a king he threw down a huge log, which fell into the water with a great splash.

Who acts: Jupiter, Frogs, huge log · What happens: see, be, keep, make, think, have · To what, where: simple creatures, Frogs, king, huge log, water · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Jupiter, Frogs, huge log), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg19994:203): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 saw	nsubj
2	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	what	what	DET	PronType=Int	7 creatures	det
4	simple	simple	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 creatures	amod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 foolish	cc
6	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 simple	conj
7	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 saw	ccomp
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 creatures	nsubj
9	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 creatures	cop
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 threw	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 threw	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 keep	mark
13	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 threw	advcl
14	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 keep	obj
15	quiet	quiet	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 keep	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 make	cc
17	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 keep	conj
18	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 make	obj
19	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 make	xcomp
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 think	ccomp
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 king	det
23	king	king	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 threw	nsubj
25	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 saw	conj
26	down	down	ADP	_	25 threw	compound:prt
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 log	det
28	huge	huge	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 log	amod
29	log	log	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 threw	obj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 fell	punct
31	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 fell	nsubj
32	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 log	acl:relcl
33	into	into	ADP	_	35 water	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 water	det
35	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
36	with	with	ADP	_	39 splash	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 splash	det
38	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 splash	amod
39	splash	splash	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 fell	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	Jupiter			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	is a	past	Frogs = frog	what simple creatures		tree rules
3	keep	to-infinitive	Jupiter not said here	Frogs = frog	quiet property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
4	make	infinitive	Jupiter not said here	Frogs = frog		tree rules
5	think speech: other	infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	have	past	Frogs = frog	a king		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Patient
7	throw down	past	Jupiter	a huge log		vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent log=Theme
8	fall	past	a huge log		into the water result; with a great splash	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into water=Result

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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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