Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 41

“The lot of each,” replied Juno, “has been assigned by the will of the Fates—to thee, beauty; to the eagle, strength; to the nightingale, song; to the raven, favourable, and to the crow, unfavourable auguries.

Who acts: Juno, Fates · What happens: reply, assign · 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 (Juno, Fates), 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	3 lot	punct
2	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lot	det
3	lot	lot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	ccomp
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 each	case
5	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	3 lot	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lot	punct
7	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 lot	punct
8	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	Juno	Juno	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 replied	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 assigned	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 assigned	punct
12	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 assigned	aux
13	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 assigned	aux:pass
14	assigned	assign	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 replied	conj
15	by	by	ADP	_	20 Fates	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fates	det
17	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	20 Fates	aux
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 Fates	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 Fates	det
20	Fates	fate	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 assigned	obl
21	—	-	PUNCT	_	23 thee	punct
22	to	to	ADP	_	23 thee	case
23	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	20 Fates	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beauty	punct
25	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 thee	vocative
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	29 eagle	punct
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 eagle	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 eagle	det
29	eagle	eagle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	parataxis
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 strength	punct
31	strength	strength	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 eagle	conj
32	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 nightingale	punct
33	to	to	ADP	_	35 nightingale	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 nightingale	det
35	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 replied	parataxis
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 song	punct
37	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nightingale	conj
38	;	;	PUNCT	_	41 raven	punct
39	to	to	ADP	_	41 raven	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 raven	det
41	raven	raven	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 nightingale	appos
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 favourable	punct
43	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 raven	amod
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	48 crow	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 crow	cc
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 crow	case
47	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	48 crow	det
48	crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 raven	conj
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	51 auguries	punct
50	unfavourable	unfavourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 auguries	amod
51	auguries	augury	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 raven	conj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	Juno						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	assign in a quote	present · perfect · passive	the Fates						vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=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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