Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 115

She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley.

Who acts: Hunter · What happens: ponder, obtain, gain, give, purpose, allowance · To what, where: two eggs, purpose, last, double allowance, Hen, barley

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 (Hunter), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 pondered	nsubj
2	often	often	ADV	_	3 pondered	advmod
3	pondered	ponder	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	7 obtain	advmod
5	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 obtain	nsubj
6	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	7 obtain	aux
7	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 pondered	ccomp
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 eggs	nummod
9	eggs	egg	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 obtain	obj
10	daily	daily	ADV	_	7 obtain	advmod
11	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	13 one	case
12	of	of	ADP	_	11 instead	fixed
13	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	7 obtain	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gain	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 gain	cc
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 last	case
17	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 gain	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 gain	punct
19	to	to	PART	_	20 gain	mark
20	gain	gain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	3 pondered	parataxis
21	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 purpose	nmod:poss
22	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 gain	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 determined	punct
24	determined	determined	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pondered	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 give	mark
26	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 determined	xcomp
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Hen	det
28	Hen	Hen	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 give	iobj
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 allowance	det
30	double	double	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 allowance	amod
31	allowance	allowance	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 give	obj
32	of	of	ADP	_	33 barley	case
33	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 allowance	nmod
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 pondered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ponder	past	Hunter				often property	tree rules
2	obtain	might	Hunter	two eggs			instead one; daily property	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent egg=Theme
3	gain	to-infinitive		Hunter's purpose		last		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source NP.asset»: agent=Agent purpose=Theme at last=Asset
4	give	to-infinitive	Hunter not said here	a double allowance of barley	the Hen			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent hen=Recipient allowance=Theme
5	purpose		Hunter					nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent
6	allowance			barley				nom allowance «possession transitive»: of=patient

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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