Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 24
The Goods wafted themselves to heaven and asked for a righteous vengeance on their persecutors.
Who acts: Goods · What happens: waft, ask · To what, where: Goods
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 (Goods), 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 Goods | det |
| 2 | Goods | goods | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 3 wafted | nsubj |
| 3 | wafted | waft | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 wafted | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 heaven | case |
| 6 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wafted | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 asked | cc |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wafted | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 vengeance | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 vengeance | det |
| 11 | righteous | righteous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 vengeance | amod |
| 12 | vengeance | vengeance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obl |
| 13 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 persecutors | case |
| 14 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 persecutors | nmod:poss |
| 15 | persecutors | persecutor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 vengeance | nmod |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wafted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | waft | past | the Goods | Goods | to heaven | vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the Goods not said here | for a righteous vengeance on Goods's persecutors | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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