Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 26
The Frog that lived in the pond warned his friend to change his residence and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that he would enjoy greater safety from danger and more abundant food.
Who acts: Frog, One · What happens: live, warn, change, entreat, come, say · To what, where: pond, friend, residence, One, greater safety, danger · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Frog, One), 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 Frog | det |
| 2 | Frog | frog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warned | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 lived | nsubj |
| 4 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 Frog | acl:relcl |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 pond | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 pond | det |
| 7 | pond | pond | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lived | obl |
| 8 | warned | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 friend | nmod:poss |
| 10 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 warned | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 change | mark |
| 12 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 warned | advcl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 residence | nmod:poss |
| 14 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 change | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 entreated | cc |
| 16 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 warned | conj |
| 17 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 entreated | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 come | mark |
| 19 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 entreated | xcomp |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 live | cc |
| 21 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 come | conj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 live | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 saying | punct |
| 25 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 entreated | advcl |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 enjoy | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 enjoy | nsubj |
| 28 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 enjoy | aux |
| 29 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 saying | ccomp |
| 30 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 safety | amod |
| 31 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 enjoy | obj |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 danger | case |
| 33 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 enjoy | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 food | cc |
| 35 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 food | amod |
| 36 | abundant | abundant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 food | amod |
| 37 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 danger | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 warned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | the Frog | the pond | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=Location | ||||
| 2 | warn speech: warn | past | the Frog | One's friend | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent friend=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | change | to-infinitive | the Frog not said here | One's residence | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent residence=Patient | ||||
| 4 | entreat | past | the Frog not said here | One | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | come | to-infinitive | the Frog not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | live | infinitive | the Frog not said here | with One | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location | ||||
| 7 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Frog not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 8 | enjoy | would | One | greater safety | danger and more abundant food | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer safety=Stimulus |
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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