Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 92
His master, sending for a leech, asked his advice.
Who acts: master · What happens: send, ask · To what, where: advice
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 (master), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 master | nmod:poss |
| 2 | master | master | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 sending | punct |
| 4 | sending | send | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 master | acl |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 leech | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 leech | det |
| 7 | leech | leech | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sending | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 master | punct |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 advice | nmod:poss |
| 11 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 asked | obj |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | send | gerund | feeding's master not said here | for a leech | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | feeding's master | feeding's advice | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent advice=Recipient |
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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