Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 98

The Horse, desiring to revenge himself on the stranger, asked a man if he were willing to help him in punishing the Stag.

Who acts: Horse, Stag · What happens: desire, ask, be, help, punish · To what, where: revenge, stranger, man, Stag

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 (Horse, Stag), 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 Horse	det
2	Horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 desiring	punct
4	desiring	desire	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Horse	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 revenge	mark
6	revenge	revenge	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 desiring	obj
7	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	6 revenge	nmod:unmarked
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 stranger	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 stranger	det
10	stranger	stranger	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 desiring	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Horse	punct
12	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 man	det
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 asked	obj
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 willing	mark
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 willing	nsubj
17	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 willing	cop
18	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 asked	ccomp
19	to	to	PART	_	20 help	mark
20	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 willing	xcomp
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 help	obj
22	in	in	SCONJ	_	23 punishing	mark
23	punishing	punish	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	20 help	advcl
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Stag	det
25	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 punishing	obj
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	desire	gerund	the Horse not said here	revenge Stag		the stranger		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot revenge=Theme
2	ask speech: ask	past	the Horse		a man			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent man=Recipient
3	is a condition, not said to happen	past	Stag				willing property	tree rules
4	help	to-infinitive	Stag not said here		Stag			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary
5	punish	gerund	Stag not said here	the Stag				vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stag=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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