Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 3
He brought with him several slices of meat in order to pacify the Housedog, so that he would not alarm his master by barking.
Who acts: He · What happens: bring, pacify, bark, slice · To what, where: several slices, order, Housedog, meat
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 (He), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | nsubj |
| 2 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 brought | obl |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 slices | amod |
| 6 | slices | slice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 brought | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 meat | case |
| 8 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 slices | nmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 order | case |
| 10 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 brought | obl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 pacify | mark |
| 12 | pacify | pacify | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 brought | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Housedog | det |
| 14 | Housedog | housedog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pacify | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 alarm | punct |
| 16 | so | so | SCONJ | _ | 21 alarm | case |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 so | fixed |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 alarm | nsubj |
| 19 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 alarm | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 alarm | advmod |
| 21 | alarm | alarm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pacify | obl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 master | nmod:poss |
| 23 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 pacify | obj |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 barking | mark |
| 25 | barking | bark | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 pacify | advcl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring | past | He | several slices of meat | order | with him = he | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent slice=Theme | ||
| 2 | pacify | to-infinitive | He not said here | the Housedog | so alarm | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Stimulus housedog=Experiencer master=Result | |||
| 3 | bark | gerund | He not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | slice | meat | nom slice «possession transitive»: of=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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