Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 114

The Crane, in his turn, asked the Fox to sup with him, and set before her a flagon with a long narrow mouth, so that he could easily insert his neck and enjoy its contents at his leisure.

Who acts: Crane, set flagon, Mercury · What happens: ask, sup, insert, enjoy · To what, where: set flagon, Fox, neck, contents, leisure

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 (Crane, set flagon, Mercury), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crane	det
2	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 asked	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 turn	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 turn	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 turn	nmod:poss
6	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Crane	appos
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Crane	punct
8	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Fox	det
10	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 sup	mark
12	sup	sup	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	xcomp
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 him	case
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 sup	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 flagon	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 flagon	cc
17	set	set	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flagon	compound
18	before	before	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 set	nmod
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 flagon	det
21	flagon	flagon	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 asked	obl
22	with	with	ADP	_	26 mouth	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mouth	det
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mouth	amod
25	narrow	narrow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mouth	amod
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 flagon	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 insert	punct
28	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	33 insert	mark
29	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 so	fixed
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 insert	nsubj
31	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 insert	aux
32	easily	easily	ADV	_	33 insert	advmod
33	insert	insert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 asked	parataxis
34	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 neck	nmod:poss
35	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 insert	obj
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 enjoy	cc
37	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 insert	conj
38	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 contents	nmod:poss
39	contents	contents	NOUN	Number=Ptan	37 enjoy	obj
40	at	at	ADP	_	42 leisure	case
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 leisure	nmod:poss
42	leisure	leisure	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 enjoy	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 asked	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	past	the Crane	a set flagon with a long narrow mouth	the Fox			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent fox=Recipient clause=Topic
2	sup not said to happen	to-infinitive	a set flagon with a long narrow mouth not said here				with Mercury	vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	insert	could	Mercury	Mercury's neck			easily property	vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Theme
4	enjoy	infinitive	Mercury not said here	Crane's contents		Mercury's leisure		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer contents=Stimulus

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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