Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 125
Grateful for these favours, the animals determined to repay him to the best of their ability.
What happens: determine, repay · To what, where: animals, 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: 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 | Grateful | grateful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 2 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 favours | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 favours | det |
| 4 | favours | favour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Grateful | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 animals | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 animals | det |
| 7 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 favours | appos |
| 8 | determined | determine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 animals | acl |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 repay | mark |
| 10 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 determined | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 repay | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 best | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 best | det |
| 14 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 repay | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 ability | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 ability | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ability | ability | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 best | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Grateful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | determine | participle | the animals not said here | vn discover-84 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | repay | to-infinitive | man | to the best | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=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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