Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 117
Wishing to find out if she had the same effect on the persons in her father’s house, he made some excuse to send her home on a visit to her father.
Who acts: man, Wife · What happens: wish, find out, have, make, send · To what, where: same effect, excuse, home, father, visit
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 (man, Wife), 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 | Wishing | wish | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 made | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | PART | _ | 3 find | mark |
| 3 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Wishing | advcl |
| 4 | out | out | ADP | _ | 3 find | compound:prt |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 had | mark |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 had | nsubj |
| 7 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 find | ccomp |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 effect | det |
| 9 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 effect | amod |
| 10 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 had | obj |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 persons | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 persons | det |
| 13 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 effect | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 father | nmod:poss |
| 16 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 house | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 father | case |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 persons | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wishing | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 made | nsubj |
| 21 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 23 excuse | det |
| 23 | excuse | excuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 made | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 send | mark |
| 25 | send | send | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 excuse | acl |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 home | nmod:poss |
| 27 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 send | obj |
| 28 | on | on | ADP | _ | 30 visit | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 visit | det |
| 30 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 send | obl |
| 31 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 father | case |
| 32 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 send | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | gerund | man not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | find out | to-infinitive | man not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | have a condition, not said to happen | past | Wife | the same effect | on the persons in Wife's father's house | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Patient | |||
| 4 | make | past | man | some excuse | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent excuse=Product | ||||
| 5 | send | to-infinitive | man not said here | Wife's home | Wife's father | a visit | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent home=Theme to father=Destination |
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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