The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 10

Now the Beetle told the reason for her action, and Jupiter had to acknowledge the justice of her cause.

Who acts: Beetle, Jupiter · What happens: tell, have, acknowledge, act, cause · To what, where: reason, justice · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Eagle and the Beetle. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Beetle, Jupiter), 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 told	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Beetle	det
3	Beetle	Beetle	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 told	nsubj
4	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 reason	det
6	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 told	obj
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 action	case
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 action	nmod:poss
9	action	action	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reason	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 had	cc
12	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 told	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 acknowledge	mark
15	acknowledge	acknowledge	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 had	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 justice	det
17	justice	justice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 acknowledge	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 cause	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 cause	nmod:poss
20	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 justice	nmod
21	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 told	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	past	the Beetle	the reason	now	for Beetle's action	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient
2	have	past	Jupiter				tree rules
3	acknowledge	to-infinitive	Jupiter not said here	the justice of Beetle's cause			vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent justice=Topic
4	act		Beetle				nom action «act intransitive»: poss=agent
5	cause		Beetle				nom cause «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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