Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 136
A STAG asked a Sheep to lend him a measure of wheat, and said that the Wolf would be his surety.
Who acts: STAG, Wolf · What happens: ask, lend, say, be, measure · To what, where: Sheep, measure, wolf, surety, wheat · 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 (STAG, Wolf), 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 | 2 STAG | det |
| 2 | STAG | stag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Sheep | det |
| 5 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 asked | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 lend | mark |
| 7 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 asked | xcomp |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 lend | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 measure | det |
| 10 | measure | measure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 lend | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wheat | case |
| 12 | wheat | wheat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 measure | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 said | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 asked | parataxis |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 surety | mark |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Wolf | det |
| 18 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 surety | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 surety | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 22 surety | cop |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 surety | nmod:poss |
| 22 | surety | surety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 said | ccomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | past | a STAG | a Sheep | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent sheep=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | lend not said to happen | to-infinitive | a STAG not said here | a measure of wheat | wolf | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient measure=Theme | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | is a | would | the Wolf | wolf's surety | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | measure | wheat | nom measure «act 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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