Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 133

A young Calf came up, and offered to go before and show him the way by which he could manage to pass.

Who acts: young Calf, Calf · What happens: come up, offer, go, show, manage, pass · To what, where: way, Calf

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 (young Calf, Calf), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 Calf	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Calf	amod
3	Calf	calf	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 offered	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 offered	cc
8	offered	offer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 came	conj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 go	mark
10	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 offered	xcomp
11	before	before	ADV	_	10 go	advmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 show	cc
13	show	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 go	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 show	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 way	det
16	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 show	obj
17	by	by	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 manage	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 manage	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 manage	aux
21	manage	manage	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 way	acl:relcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 pass	mark
23	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 manage	xcomp
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	a young Calf				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	offer	participle	a young Calf not said here				tree rules
3	go not said to happen	to-infinitive	a young Calf not said here			before property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	show	present	a young Calf not said here	the way	Calf		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient way=Topic
5	manage	could	Calf			by the way	vn succeed-74-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	pass	to-infinitive	Calf not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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