Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 15

AN OWL, in her wisdom, counseled the Birds that when the acorn first began to sprout, to pull it all up out of the ground and not allow it to grow.

Who acts: AN OWL, Birds, acorn · What happens: counsel, begin, sprout, pull, not allow, grow · To what, where: Birds, acorn, ground

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 (AN OWL, Birds, acorn), 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	AN	an	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 OWL	amod
2	OWL	owl	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 counseled	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 wisdom	punct
4	in	in	ADP	_	6 wisdom	case
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 wisdom	nmod:poss
6	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 OWL	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 OWL	punct
8	counseled	counsel	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Birds	det
10	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 counseled	obj
11	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 began	nsubj
12	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	16 began	advmod
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 acorn	det
14	acorn	acorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 began	nsubj
15	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	16 began	advmod
16	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Birds	acl:relcl
17	to	to	PART	_	18 sprout	mark
18	sprout	sprout	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 began	xcomp
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 pull	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 pull	mark
21	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 sprout	conj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 pull	obj
23	all	all	ADV	_	24 up	advmod
24	up	up	ADV	_	21 pull	advmod
25	out	out	ADP	_	28 ground	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	28 ground	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 ground	det
28	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 pull	obl
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 allow	cc
30	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 allow	advmod
31	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 pull	conj
32	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 allow	obj
33	to	to	PART	_	34 grow	mark
34	grow	grow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 allow	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 counseled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	counsel speech: other	past	AN OWL and bird's wisdom		the Birds			vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent bird=Recipient
2	begin	past	the Birds				first property	vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	sprout	to-infinitive	the Birds not said here					vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Source
4	pull	to-infinitive	the Birds not said here	acorn		the ground		vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent it=Theme out ground=Initial_Location
5	not allow	infinitive	the Birds not said here	acorn				vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer it=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality
6	grow not said to happen	to-infinitive	acorn not said here					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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