Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 101
He appealed to the Ass to fly with him, lest they should both be captured, but the animal lazily replied, “Why should I, pray?
Who acts: Ass, animal · What happens: appeal, fly, capture, reply, pray · To what, where: shepherds · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ass, animal), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 appealed | nsubj |
| 2 | appealed | appeal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 Ass | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Ass | det |
| 5 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 appealed | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 fly | mark |
| 7 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 appealed | advcl |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 fly | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 captured | punct |
| 11 | lest | lest | SCONJ | _ | 16 captured | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 captured | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 captured | aux |
| 14 | both | both | ADV | _ | 16 captured | advmod |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 captured | aux:pass |
| 16 | captured | capture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 fly | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 replied | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 replied | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 animal | det |
| 20 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 replied | nsubj |
| 21 | lazily | lazily | ADV | _ | 22 replied | advmod |
| 22 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 appealed | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pray | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 pray | punct |
| 25 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 pray | advmod |
| 26 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 pray | aux |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 pray | nsubj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pray | punct |
| 29 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 replied | conj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 appealed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appeal | past | Ass | to the Ass | vn appeal-31.4-2 «NP V PP.experiencer»: agent=Stimulus to ass=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | fly | to-infinitive | Ass not said here | with Ass | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | capture | should · passive | shepherds = shepherd | both property | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 4 | reply speech: ask | past | the animal | lazily property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | pray in a quote | should | the animal = animal | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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