Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 36
They promised amply to repay him the favour which they asked.
Who acts: Wasps · What happens: promise, repay, ask · To what, where: Farmer, favour
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 (Wasps), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 promised | nsubj |
| 2 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | amply | amply | ADV | _ | 2 promised | advmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 repay | mark |
| 5 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 promised | xcomp |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 repay | obj |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 favour | det |
| 8 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 repay | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 asked | obj |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | nsubj |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 favour | acl:relcl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | Wasps = wasp | amply property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | repay not said to happen | to-infinitive | Wasps = wasp not said here | Farmer | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient favour=Asset | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Wasps = wasp | the favour | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=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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