Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 67

A MAN came into a forest and asked the Trees to provide him a handle for his axe.

Who acts: MAN, Trees · What happens: come, ask, provide · To what, where: forest, Trees, handle, MAN

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 (MAN, Trees), 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 MAN	det
2	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 forest	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 forest	det
6	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 asked	cc
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 came	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Trees	det
10	Trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 asked	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 provide	mark
12	provide	provide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 provide	obj
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 handle	det
15	handle	handle	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 provide	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 axe	case
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 axe	nmod:poss
18	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 handle	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	come	past	a MAN			a forest	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into forest=Initial_Location
2	ask speech: ask	past	a MAN not said here	the Trees			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent tree=Recipient clause=Topic
3	provide not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Trees not said here	a handle	MAN		vn ensure-99 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Precondition he=Beneficiary handle=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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