The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Goat, sentence 8
The foolish Goat now saw what a plight he had got into, and begged the Fox to help him out.
Who acts: foolish Goat, Goat · What happens: see, get, beg, help out · To what, where: plight, Fox, Goat
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Goat. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foolish Goat, Goat), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Goat | det |
| 2 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Goat | amod |
| 3 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 saw | advmod |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 saw | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 plight | det |
| 8 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 what | nsubj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 got | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 got | aux |
| 11 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 plight | acl:relcl |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 got | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 begged | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 begged | cc |
| 15 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | conj |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Fox | det |
| 17 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 begged | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 help | mark |
| 19 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 begged | advcl |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 help | obj |
| 21 | out | out | ADP | _ | 19 help | compound:prt |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | past | the foolish Goat | now | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer what=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | get | past · perfect | Goat | a plight not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer plight=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | past | the foolish Goat not said here | the Fox | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | help out | to-infinitive | the foolish Goat not said here | Goat | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary |
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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