Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 22

On his arrival, the Town Mouse placed before him bread, barley, beans, dried figs, honey, raisins, and, last of all, brought a dainty piece of cheese from a basket.

Who acts: Town Mouse, all, luxury · What happens: place, dry, bring, arrive · To what, where: bread, arrival, dainty piece, basket

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 (Town Mouse, all, luxury), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 arrival	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 arrival	nmod:poss
3	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 arrival	punct
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Mouse	det
6	Town	Town	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 Mouse	compound
7	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 placed	nsubj
8	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	before	before	ADP	_	10 him	case
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 placed	obl
11	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 placed	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 barley	punct
13	barley	barley	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bread	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 beans	punct
15	beans	bean	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bread	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 figs	punct
17	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 figs	amod
18	figs	fig	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bread	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 honey	punct
20	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 bread	conj
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 raisins	punct
22	raisins	raisin	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 bread	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 brought	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 brought	cc
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 all	punct
26	last	last	ADV	_	28 all	advmod
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 all	case
28	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 brought	nsubj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 all	punct
30	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 placed	conj
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 piece	det
32	dainty	dainty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 piece	amod
33	piece	piece	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	35 cheese	case
35	cheese	cheese	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 piece	nmod
36	from	from	ADP	_	38 basket	case
37	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 basket	det
38	basket	basket	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 brought	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 placed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	place	past	the Town Mouse	bread and barley and beans and dried figs and honey and raisins	luxury's arrival	before luxury	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on arrival=Destination
2	dry	participle					vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
3	bring	past	all	a dainty piece of cheese	a basket		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent piece=Theme from basket=Initial_Location
4	arrive		luxury				nom arrival «act intransitive»: poss=agent

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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