Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 54

When no one appeared willing to buy it, in order to attract purchasers, he cried out that he had the statue to sell of a benefactor who bestowed wealth and helped to heap up riches.

Who acts: one, Mercury, benefactor · What happens: appear, buy, attract, cry out, have, sell · To what, where: reply, purchasers, statue, wealth, riches

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 (one, Mercury, benefactor), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	4 appeared	mark
2	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	3 one	det
3	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 appeared	nsubj
4	appeared	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	advcl
5	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 appeared	xcomp
6	to	to	PART	_	7 buy	mark
7	buy	buy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 willing	xcomp
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 buy	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 attract	punct
10	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	13 attract	mark
11	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 in	fixed
12	to	to	PART	_	13 attract	mark
13	attract	attract	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 buy	conj
14	purchasers	purchaser	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 attract	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 appeared	punct
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 cried	nsubj
17	cried	cry	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	out	out	ADP	_	17 cried	compound:prt
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 had	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 had	nsubj
21	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 cried	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 statue	det
23	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 had	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 sell	mark
25	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 statue	acl
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 benefactor	case
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	28 benefactor	det
28	benefactor	benefactor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sell	obl
29	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	30 bestowed	nsubj
30	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 benefactor	acl:relcl
31	wealth	wealth	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 bestowed	obj
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 helped	cc
33	helped	help	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 bestowed	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 heap	mark
35	heap	heap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 helped	xcomp
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 heap	compound:prt
37	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 heap	obj
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 cried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	appear	past	no one		willing property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	buy	to-infinitive	no one not said here	reply		vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme
3	attract	to-infinitive	no one not said here	purchasers		vn lure-59.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent purchaser=Patient
4	cry out speech: express	past	Mercury			vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	have	past	Mercury	the statue		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent statue=Patient
6	sell	to-infinitive	Mercury not said here	the statue not said here	of a benefactor	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent
7	bestow	past	a benefactor	wealth		tree rules
8	help	past	a benefactor not said here			vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
9	heap up	to-infinitive	a benefactor not said here	riches		vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent rich=Theme

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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