Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 124

He let the Horse make free with his oats, gave the Ox an abundance of hay, and fed the Dog with meat from his own table.

Who acts: man, Horse · What happens: let, make, give, feed · To what, where: Ox, Dog, own table

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, 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 let	nsubj
2	let	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Horse	det
4	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 make	nsubj
5	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 let	ccomp
6	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 make	xcomp
7	with	with	ADP	_	9 oats	case
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 oats	nmod:poss
9	oats	oat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 free	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 gave	punct
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 Ox	det
13	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
14	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 abundance	det
15	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 hay	case
17	hay	hay	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 abundance	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 fed	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 fed	cc
20	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 let	conj
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Dog	det
22	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fed	obj
23	with	with	ADP	_	24 meat	case
24	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fed	obl
25	from	from	ADP	_	28 table	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 table	nmod:poss
27	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 table	amod
28	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fed	obl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	past	man					tree rules
2	make	present	the Horse				free property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	give	past	man not said here	the Ox				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent ox=Recipient abundance=Theme
4	feed	past	man not said here		the Dog	man's own table	with meat	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dog=Recipient

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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