Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 61

For this purpose he called for a cup, and while filling it with water, pretended to mix poison with the Cobbler’s antidote, commanding him to drink it on the promise of a reward.

Who acts: COBBLER · What happens: call, fill, pretend, mix, command, drink · To what, where: cup, poison, COBBLER, promise, reward · 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 (COBBLER), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 purpose	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 called	nsubj
5	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	for	for	ADP	_	8 cup	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 cup	det
8	cup	cup	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 called	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 pretended	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 pretended	cc
11	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 filling	mark
12	filling	fill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 pretended	advcl
13	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 filling	obj
14	with	with	ADP	_	15 water	case
15	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 filling	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 filling	punct
17	pretended	pretend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 called	conj
18	to	to	PART	_	19 mix	mark
19	mix	mix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 pretended	xcomp
20	poison	poison	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mix	obj
21	with	with	ADP	_	25 antidote	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 Cobbler	det
23	Cobbler	Cobbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 antidote	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Cobbler	case
25	antidote	antidote	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 mix	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 commanding	punct
27	commanding	command	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	19 mix	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 commanding	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 drink	mark
30	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 commanding	xcomp
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 drink	obj
32	on	on	ADP	_	34 promise	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 promise	det
34	promise	promise	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 drink	obl
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 reward	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 reward	det
37	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 promise	nmod
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	past	COBBLER			for this purpose; for a cup	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S_INF»: agent=Agent for purpose=Recipient
2	fill	gerund		cup		with water	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with water=Instrument
3	pretend	participle	COBBLER not said here				tree rules
4	mix	to-infinitive	COBBLER not said here	poison		with the Cobbler's antidote	vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent poison=Patient with antidote=Co-Patient
5	command	gerund	COBBLER not said here	COBBLER			vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
6	drink not said to happen	to-infinitive	COBBLER not said here	cup	the promise of a reward		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
7	promise			a reward			nom promise «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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