Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 99

Now he considered that it would be neither an easy nor a necessary work to make himself such a house as would accommodate him.

Who acts: space, size · What happens: consider, be, make, accommodate · To what, where: space

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 (space, size), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	3 considered	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 considered	nsubj
3	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	10 easy	mark
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 easy	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 easy	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 easy	cop
8	neither	neither	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	10 easy	cc:preconj
9	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 easy	det
10	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 considered	xcomp
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	14 work	cc
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 work	det
13	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 work	amod
14	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 considered	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 make	mark
16	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 considered	advcl
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	16 make	obj
18	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	20 house	det:predet
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 house	det
20	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 make	obj
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 accommodate	mark
22	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 accommodate	aux
23	accommodate	accommodate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 make	advcl
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 accommodate	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 considered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	consider	past	space		now		vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent
2	is	would	size			easy property	tree rules
3	make	to-infinitive	space not said here	space			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset himself=Beneficiary house=Product
4	accommodate	would	space not said here	space			vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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