Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 107
A CROW caught in a snare prayed to Apollo to release him, making a vow to offer some frankincense at his shrine.
Who acts: vow · What happens: catch, pray, release, make, offer · To what, where: CROW, snare, Apollo, vow, frankincense, shrine
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vow), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 CROW | det |
| 2 | CROW | crow | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 CROW | acl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 snare | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 snare | det |
| 6 | snare | snare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obl |
| 7 | prayed | pray | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 snare | acl |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 Apollo | case |
| 9 | Apollo | Apollo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 prayed | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 release | mark |
| 11 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 prayed | advcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 release | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 making | punct |
| 14 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 caught | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 vow | det |
| 16 | vow | vow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 making | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 offer | mark |
| 18 | offer | offer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 making | xcomp |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 frankincense | det |
| 20 | frankincense | frankincense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offer | obj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 shrine | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 shrine | nmod:poss |
| 23 | shrine | shrine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 offer | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 CROW | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | participle | a CROW not said here | a snare | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | pray | participle | a snare not said here | Apollo | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | release | to-infinitive | Apollo | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source | |||||
| 4 | make | gerund | a vow | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | offer | to-infinitive | a vow not said here | some frankincense | Apollo's shrine | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent frankincense=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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