The Aesop for Children, The Tortoise and the Ducks, sentence 3

They say that Jupiter punished him so, because he was such a lazy stay-at-home that he would not go to Jupiter's wedding, even when especially invited.

Who acts: They, Jupiter, Tortoise, home · What happens: say, punish, be, not go, invite, wed · To what, where: Tortoise, home, wedding · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Tortoise and the Ducks. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (They, Jupiter, Tortoise, home), 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	They	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 say	nsubj
2	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	that	that	SCONJ	_	5 punished	mark
4	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 punished	nsubj
5	punished	punish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 say	ccomp
6	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 punished	obj
7	so	so	ADV	_	5 punished	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 home	punct
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	19 home	mark
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 home	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 home	cop
12	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	15 stay	det:predet
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 stay	det
14	lazy	lazy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 stay	amod
15	stay	stay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 home	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	19 home	punct
17	at	at	ADP	_	19 home	case
18	-	-	PUNCT	_	17 at	punct
19	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 say	obl
20	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	24 go	nsubj
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 go	nsubj
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 go	aux
23	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 go	advmod
24	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 home	acl:relcl
25	to	to	ADP	_	28 wedding	case
26	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	28 wedding	nmod:poss
27	's	's	PART	_	26 Jupiter	case
28	wedding	wedding	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 go	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 invited	punct
30	even	even	ADV	_	33 invited	advmod
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	33 invited	advmod
32	especially	especially	ADV	_	33 invited	advmod
33	invited	invite	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 go	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	They				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	punish	past	Jupiter	Tortoise			vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
3	is	past	Tortoise		home		tree rules
4	not go	would	home		Jupiter's wedding		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to wedding=Initial_Location
5	invite	participle	home not said here			especially property	vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
6	wed		Jupiter				nom wedding «event transitive»: poss=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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