The Aesop for Children, The Owl and the Grasshopper, sentence 16

Now that I think of it, I have a wonderful wine here, sent me from Olympus, of which I am told Apollo drinks before he sings to the high gods.

Who acts: I, Olympus · What happens: think, have, send, tell, sing · To what, where: wonderful wine, me, Olympus, I, high gods · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Owl and the Grasshopper. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Olympus), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 think	advmod
2	that	that	SCONJ	_	4 think	mark
3	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 think	nsubj
4	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 it	case
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 think	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 have	punct
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 have	nsubj
9	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 think	conj
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 wine	det
11	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 wine	amod
12	wine	wine	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 have	obj
13	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 have	advmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 sent	punct
15	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 think	parataxis
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 sent	obj
17	from	from	ADP	_	18 Olympus	case
18	Olympus	Olympus	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 sent	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 told	punct
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 which	case
21	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 told	obl
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 told	nsubj
23	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	aux:pass
24	told	tell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 sent	parataxis
25	Apollo	Apollo	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 drinks	compound
26	drinks	drink	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 told	obj
27	before	before	SCONJ	_	29 sings	mark
28	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 sings	nsubj
29	sings	sing	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 told	advcl
30	to	to	ADP	_	33 gods	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 gods	det
32	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 gods	amod
33	gods	god	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 sings	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	present	I				now	of singing	vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	have	present	I	a wonderful wine		here			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wine=Patient
3	send	past		me		Olympus			vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from olympus=Initial_Location
4	tell speech: assert	present · passive		I					vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: subject=Recipient drink=Topic
5	sing speech: express	present	Olympus		the high gods				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to god=Recipient

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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