Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 14

The Ape and all his court, gratified with the lie, commanded that a handsome present be given to the flatterer.

Who acts: Ape · What happens: gratify, command, give · To what, where: court, handsome present, flatterer · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Ape), 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 Ape	det
2	Ape	Ape	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 commanded	nsubj
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 court	cc
4	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 court	det:predet
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 court	nmod:poss
6	court	court	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Ape	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 gratified	punct
8	gratified	gratify	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 court	acl
9	with	with	ADP	_	11 lie	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 lie	det
11	lie	lie	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gratified	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Ape	punct
13	commanded	command	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	19 given	mark
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 present	det
16	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 present	amod
17	present	present	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	nsubj:pass
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 given	aux:pass
19	given	give	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 commanded	advcl
20	to	to	ADP	_	22 flatterer	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 flatterer	det
22	flatterer	flatterer	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 given	obl
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 commanded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	gratify	participle		sort's court not said here		with the lie	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	command	past	the Ape				vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent
3	give	infinitive · passive		a handsome present	the flatterer		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to flatterer=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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