Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 123

He received them kindly, lighted a fire, and warmed them.

Who acts: man · What happens: receive, light, warm · To what, where: Horse, fire

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), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	nsubj
2	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 received	obj
4	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	2 received	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 lighted	punct
6	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 received	advcl
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 fire	det
8	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lighted	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 warmed	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 warmed	cc
11	warmed	warm	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 received	conj
12	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 warmed	obj
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	receive	past	man	Horse	kindly property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme
2	light	participle	man not said here	a fire		vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Product
3	warm	past	man not said here	Horse		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=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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