The Aesop for Children, The Frogs Who Wished For a King, sentence 9
To teach the Frogs a lesson the ruler of the gods now sent a Crane to be king of Frogland.
Who acts: ruler · What happens: teach, send, be · To what, where: lesson, Frogs, Crane, king
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 (ruler), 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 teach | mark |
| 2 | teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 sent | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Frogs | det |
| 4 | Frogs | Frog | PROPN | Number=Plur | 2 teach | obj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 lesson | det |
| 6 | lesson | lesson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 teach | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 ruler | det |
| 8 | ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gods | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 gods | det |
| 11 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ruler | nmod |
| 12 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 sent | advmod |
| 13 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Crane | det |
| 15 | Crane | crane | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 sent | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 king | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 king | cop |
| 18 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Crane | appos |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Frogland | case |
| 20 | Frogland | Frogland | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 king | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | teach speech: other | to-infinitive | the ruler of the gods not said here | a lesson | the Frogs | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent frog=Recipient lesson=Topic | |||
| 2 | send | past | the ruler of the gods | a Crane | now | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent crane=Theme | |||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | king | of Frogland | tree rules |
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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