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Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 75

A Fox heard the sound, and wishing to make a breakfast on him, came and stood under the branches, saying how earnestly he desired to make the acquaintance of the owner of so magnificent a voice.

Who acts: Fox, Cock · What happens: hear, wish, make, come, stand, say · To what, where: sound, breakfast, branches, acquaintance, owner · 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 (Fox, Cock), 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

detnsubjdetobjpunctccadvclmarkxcompdetobjcaseoblpunctparataxisccconjcasedetoblpunctadvcladvmodadvmodnsubjccompmarkxcompdetobjcasedetnmodcaseadvmodamoddetnmodpunctrootADETFoxNOUNheardVERBtheDETsoundNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJwishingVERBtoPARTmakeVERBaDETbreakfastNOUNonADPhimPRON,PUNCTcameVERBandCCONJstoodVERBunderADPtheDETbranchesNOUN,PUNCTsayingVERBhowADVearnestlyADVhePRONdesiredVERBtoPARTmakeVERBtheDETacquaintanceNOUNofADPtheDETownerNOUNofADPsoADVmagnificentADJaDETvoiceNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art2 Foxdet
2FoxfoxNOUNNumber=Sing3 heardnsubj
3heardhearVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 sounddet
5soundsoundNOUNNumber=Sing3 heardobj
6,,PUNCT_8 wishingpunct
7andandCCONJ_8 wishingcc
8wishingwishVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part3 heardadvcl
9totoPART_10 makemark
10makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf8 wishingxcomp
11aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art12 breakfastdet
12breakfastbreakfastNOUNNumber=Sing10 makeobj
13ononADP_14 himcase
14himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs10 makeobl
15,,PUNCT_16 camepunct
16camecomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin3 heardparataxis
17andandCCONJ_18 stoodcc
18stoodstandVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 cameconj
19underunderADP_21 branchescase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art21 branchesdet
21branchesbranchNOUNNumber=Plur18 stoodobl
22,,PUNCT_23 sayingpunct
23sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part18 stoodadvcl
24howhowADVPronType=Int25 earnestlyadvmod
25earnestlyearnestlyADV_27 desiredadvmod
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs27 desirednsubj
27desireddesireVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin23 sayingccomp
28totoPART_29 makemark
29makemakeVERBVerbForm=Inf27 desiredxcomp
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 acquaintancedet
31acquaintanceacquaintanceNOUNNumber=Sing29 makeobj
32ofofADP_34 ownercase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 ownerdet
34ownerownerNOUNNumber=Sing31 acquaintancenmod
35ofofADP_39 voicecase
36sosoADV_37 magnificentadvmod
37magnificentmagnificentADJDegree=Pos39 voiceamod
38aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 voicedet
39voicevoiceNOUNNumber=Sing34 ownernmod
40..PUNCT_3 heardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hearpasta Foxthe soundvn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sound=Stimulus
2wishgerunda Fox not said herevn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3make not said to happento-infinitivea Fox not said herea breakfaston Cockvn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset breakfast=Product
4comepastvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5standpastthe branchesvn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under branch=Location
6say speech: assertgerundvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7desirepastCockearnestly propertyvn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
8make not said to happento-infinitiveCock not said herethe acquaintance of the owner of a magnificent voicevn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset acquaintance=Product
9acquaintthe owner of a magnificent voicenom acquaintance «cognition 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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