Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 108

AN OWL, accustomed to feed at night and to sleep during the day, was greatly disturbed by the noise of a Grasshopper and earnestly besought her to stop chirping.

Who acts: noise, Grasshopper · What happens: accustom, feed, sleep, disturb, beseech, stop · To what, where: AN OWL, youth

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noise, Grasshopper), 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	AN	an	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 OWL	amod
2	OWL	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disturbed	nsubj:pass
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 accustomed	punct
4	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 OWL	acl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 feed	mark
6	feed	feed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 accustomed	xcomp
7	at	at	ADP	_	8 night	case
8	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 feed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 sleep	cc
10	to	to	PART	_	11 sleep	mark
11	sleep	sleep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 feed	conj
12	during	during	ADP	_	14 day	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 day	det
14	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sleep	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 OWL	punct
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 disturbed	aux:pass
17	greatly	greatly	ADV	_	18 disturbed	advmod
18	disturbed	disturb	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 noise	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 noise	det
21	noise	noise	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 disturbed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Grasshopper	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 Grasshopper	det
24	Grasshopper	Grasshopper	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 noise	nmod
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 besought	cc
26	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	27 besought	advmod
27	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 disturbed	conj
28	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 besought	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 stop	mark
30	stop	stop	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 besought	xcomp
31	chirping	chirp	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	30 stop	xcomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 disturbed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	accustom	participle		AN OWL not said here			tree rules
2	feed	to-infinitive			night		vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent
3	sleep	to-infinitive			day		vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	disturb	past · passive	the noise of a Grasshopper	AN OWL		greatly property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
5	beseech	past	the noise of a Grasshopper not said here	youth		earnestly property	tree rules
6	stop	to-infinitive	the noise of a Grasshopper not said here				vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality
7	chirp	gerund	the noise of a Grasshopper not said here				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	noise		a Grasshopper				nom noise «event intransitive»: of=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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