Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 59

He sold a drug, pretending that it was an antidote to all poisons, and obtained a great name for himself by long-winded puffs and advertisements.

Who acts: COBBLER, drug · What happens: sell, pretend, be, obtain · To what, where: drug, antidote, great name

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 (COBBLER, drug), 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 sold	nsubj
2	sold	sell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 drug	det
4	drug	drug	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 sold	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pretending	punct
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 sold	advcl
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 antidote	mark
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 antidote	nsubj
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 antidote	cop
10	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 antidote	det
11	antidote	antidote	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 pretending	xcomp
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 poisons	case
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	14 poisons	det
14	poisons	poison	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 antidote	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 obtained	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 obtained	cc
17	obtained	obtain	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 sold	conj
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 name	det
19	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 name	amod
20	name	name	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 obtained	obj
21	for	for	ADP	_	22 himself	case
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	17 obtained	obl
23	by	by	ADP	_	27 puffs	case
24	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 winded	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 long	punct
26	winded	winded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 puffs	amod
27	puffs	puff	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 obtained	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 advertisements	cc
29	advertisements	advertisement	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 puffs	conj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 sold	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	sell	past	COBBLER	a drug		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent drug=Theme
2	pretend	gerund	COBBLER not said here			tree rules
3	is a	past	drug	a antidote	to all poisons	tree rules
4	obtain	past	COBBLER not said here	a great name	for COBBLER; by winded puffs and advertisements	vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent name=Theme for himself=Asset

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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