Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 4

He called to her and earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest she fall by some mishap; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender.

Who acts: Goat, she, meadows, herbage · What happens: call, beg, come down, fall, add, lie · To what, where: her, most tender · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Goat, she, meadows, herbage), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	4 her	case
4	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 begged	cc
6	earnestly	earnestly	ADV	_	7 begged	advmod
7	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 begged	obj
9	to	to	PART	_	10 come	mark
10	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 begged	xcomp
11	lower	low	ADV	Degree=Cmp	10 come	advmod
12	down	down	ADP	_	10 come	compound:prt
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 fall	punct
14	lest	lest	SCONJ	_	16 fall	mark
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 fall	nsubj
16	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 come	conj
17	by	by	ADP	_	19 mishap	case
18	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	19 mishap	det
19	mishap	mishap	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fall	obl
20	;	;	PUNCT	_	23 added	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 added	cc
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 added	nsubj
23	added	add	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 called	conj
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 lay	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 meadows	det
26	meadows	meadow	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 lay	nsubj
27	lay	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 added	advcl
28	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	31 standing	advmod
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 standing	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 standing	aux
31	standing	stand	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 lay	advcl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 tender	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 tender	cc
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 tender	mark
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 herbage	det
36	herbage	herbage	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 tender	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	39 tender	cop
38	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	39 tender	amod
39	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 standing	obl
40	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call	past	Goat		her = she		vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient
2	beg speech: request	past	Goat not said here		her = she	earnestly property	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come down not said to happen	to-infinitive	Goat not said here			low property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	fall	infinitive	she			by some mishap	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mishap=Location
5	add speech: assert	past	Goat				vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	lie	past	the meadows				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	stand	past · progressive	Goat				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	is a	past	the herbage	most tender			tree rules

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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