Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 100
The Horse consented and allowed the man to mount him.
Who acts: Horse · What happens: consent, allow, mount · To what, where: man
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Horse), 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 Horse | det |
| 2 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 allowed | cc |
| 5 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 consented | conj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 allowed | obj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 mount | mark |
| 9 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 man | acl |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 mount | obj |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the Horse | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | allow | past | the Horse not said here | the man | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | mount | to-infinitive | the Horse not said here | man | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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