The Aesop for Children, The Eagle and the Beetle, sentence 7

In despair the Eagle now implored great Jupiter to let her place her eggs in his lap.

Who acts: Eagle · What happens: implore, let · To what, where: great Jupiter, despair, Eagle, lap

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 (Eagle), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 despair	case
2	despair	despair	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 implored	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Eagle	det
4	Eagle	Eagle	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 implored	nsubj
5	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 implored	advmod
6	implored	implore	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Jupiter	amod
8	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 implored	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 let	mark
10	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 implored	ccomp
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 let	obj
12	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obj
13	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 eggs	nmod:poss
14	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 let	obj
15	in	in	ADP	_	17 lap	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 lap	nmod:poss
17	lap	lap	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 let	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 implored	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	implore	past	the Eagle	great Jupiter		despair	now		vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent jupiter=Recipient clause=Topic
2	let	to-infinitive	the Eagle not said here	Eagle		Jupiter's lap			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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