Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 42
A MAN wished to purchase an Ass, and agreed with its owner that he should try out the animal before he bought him.
Who acts: MAN, Ass · What happens: wish, purchase, agree, try out, buy · To what, where: MAN, Ass, animal, Purchaser
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 (MAN, Ass), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 MAN | det |
| 2 | MAN | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 MAN | acl |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 purchase | mark |
| 5 | purchase | purchase | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | advcl |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 Ass | det |
| 7 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purchase | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreed | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 agreed | cc |
| 10 | agreed | agree | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 owner | case |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 owner | nmod:poss |
| 13 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 agreed | obl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 try | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 try | nsubj |
| 16 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 try | aux |
| 17 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 agreed | xcomp |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 try | compound:prt |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 animal | det |
| 20 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 try | obj |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 23 bought | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bought | nsubj |
| 23 | bought | buy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 try | parataxis |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 bought | iobj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | participle | a MAN not said here | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | purchase | to-infinitive | a Ass | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset ass=Theme | |||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | participle | a MAN | with Woe's owner | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent how S»: agent=Agent with owner=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | try out not said to happen | should | Ass | the animal | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent animal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | buy | past | Ass | Purchaser | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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