Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 68
The Trees consented to his request and gave him a young ash-tree.
Who acts: Trees, MAN · What happens: consent, give, request · To what, where: young ash tree, 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 (Trees, MAN), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Trees | det |
| 2 | Trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 request | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 request | nmod:poss |
| 6 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gave | cc |
| 8 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 gave | iobj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 11 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tree | amod |
| 12 | ash | ash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tree | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 ash | punct |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 gave | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the Trees | to MAN's request | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=Theme | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the Trees not said here | a young ash tree | MAN | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient tree=Theme | |||
| 3 | request | MAN | nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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