Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 33

He called out to a passing traveler for help, but instead of holding out a helping hand, the man stood by unconcernedly, and scolded the boy for his imprudence.

Who acts: reward, man · What happens: call out, pass, hold out, help, stand, scold · To what, where: passing traveler, helping hand, boy

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 (reward, man), 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 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	7 traveler	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 traveler	det
6	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	7 traveler	amod
7	traveler	traveler	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 called	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	9 help	case
9	help	help	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 traveler	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 holding	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 holding	cc
12	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=SCONJ	14 holding	mark
13	of	of	ADP	_	12 instead	fixed
14	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 called	advcl
15	out	out	ADP	_	14 holding	compound:prt
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 hand	det
17	helping	help	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 hand	amod
18	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 holding	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 stood	punct
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 man	det
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 stood	nsubj
22	stood	stand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	parataxis
23	by	by	ADP	_	24 unconcernedly	case
24	unconcernedly	unconcernedly	ADV	_	22 stood	advmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 scolded	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 scolded	cc
27	scolded	scold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 stood	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 boy	det
29	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 scolded	obj
30	for	for	ADP	_	32 imprudence	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 imprudence	nmod:poss
32	imprudence	imprudence	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 scolded	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	reward		a passing traveler for help		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to traveler=Recipient
2	pass	gerund					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hold out	gerund	reward not said here	a helping hand			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Theme
4	help	gerund					vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	stand	past	the man			unconcernedly property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	scold	past	the man not said here	the boy		for reward's imprudence	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent boy=Theme for imprudence=Attribute

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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