Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 43
A THIEF hired a room in a tavern and stayed a while in the hope of stealing something which should enable him to pay his reckoning.
Who acts: THIEF, hope, Fox · What happens: hire, stay, steal, enable, pay, reckon · To what, where: room, tavern, hope, something, Fox, reckoning
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 (THIEF, hope, Fox), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 THIEF | det |
| 2 | THIEF | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hired | nsubj |
| 3 | hired | hire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 room | det |
| 5 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hired | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 tavern | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tavern | det |
| 8 | tavern | tavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hired | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 stayed | cc |
| 10 | stayed | stay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hired | conj |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 while | det |
| 12 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hope | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 hope | det |
| 15 | hope | hope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stayed | obl |
| 16 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 17 stealing | mark |
| 17 | stealing | steal | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 hope | acl |
| 18 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 17 stealing | obj |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 enable | nsubj |
| 20 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 enable | aux |
| 21 | enable | enable | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 something | acl:relcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 enable | obj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 pay | mark |
| 24 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 enable | xcomp |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 reckoning | nmod:poss |
| 26 | reckoning | reckoning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 pay | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hired | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hire | past | a THIEF | a room | a tavern | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 2 | stay | past | a THIEF not said here | the hope | while | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hope=Location | |||
| 3 | steal | gerund | the hope not said here | something | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location something=Theme | ||||
| 4 | enable | should | Fox | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | pay | to-infinitive | Fox not said here | Fox's reckoning | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reckoning=Asset | ||||
| 6 | reckon | Fox | nom reckoning «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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