Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 9
Then he requested the Fox to do him the favour to make a division.
Who acts: Ass · What happens: request, do, make · To what, where: Fox, Ass, division
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 (Ass), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 requested | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 requested | nsubj |
| 3 | requested | request | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Fox | det |
| 5 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 requested | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 requested | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 do | obj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 favour | det |
| 10 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 do | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 make | mark |
| 12 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 favour | acl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 division | det |
| 14 | division | division | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 make | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 requested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | past | Ass | the Fox | then | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient | |||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | Ass not said here | Ass | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | make | to-infinitive | Ass not said here | a division | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset division=Product |
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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