Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 115

The Camel, envious of the praises bestowed on the Monkey and desiring to divert to himself the favour of the guests, proposed to stand up in his turn and dance for their amusement.

Who acts: Monkey · What happens: bestow, desire, divert, propose, stand up, favour · To what, where: praises, favour, bull, turn, guests

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Monkey), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Camel	det
2	Camel	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 envious	punct
4	envious	envious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Camel	amod
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 praises	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 praises	det
7	praises	praise	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 envious	obl
8	bestowed	bestow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 praises	acl
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 Monkey	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Monkey	det
11	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 bestowed	obl
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 desiring	cc
13	desiring	desire	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 Monkey	conj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 divert	mark
15	divert	divert	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 desiring	xcomp
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 himself	case
17	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	15 divert	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 favour	det
19	favour	favour	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 divert	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 guests	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 guests	det
22	guests	guest	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 favour	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 proposed	punct
24	proposed	propose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 favour	acl
25	to	to	PART	_	26 stand	mark
26	stand	stand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 proposed	xcomp
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 stand	compound:prt
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 turn	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 turn	nmod:poss
30	turn	turn	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 dance	cc
32	dance	dance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 turn	conj
33	for	for	ADP	_	35 amusement	case
34	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 amusement	nmod:poss
35	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 stand	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Camel	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	bestow	participle		the praises not said here			on the Monkey	tree rules
2	desire	gerund						vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	divert not said to happen	to-infinitive		the favour of the guests	bull			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus favour=Experiencer
4	propose	participle		the favour of the guests not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	stand up	to-infinitive				bull's turn and dance	for Monkey's amusement	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in turn=Location
6	favour			the guests				nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient
7	amuse		Monkey					nom amusement «feeling transitive»: poss=agent

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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