Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 88
A BITCH, ready to whelp, earnestly begged a shepherd for a place where she might litter.
Who acts: legend · What happens: whelp, beg, litter · To what, where: shepherd
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 (legend), 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 BITCH | det |
| 2 | BITCH | bitch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 ready | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 BITCH | punct |
| 4 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 whelp | mark |
| 6 | whelp | whelp | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 ready | xcomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 begged | punct |
| 8 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 9 begged | advmod |
| 9 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 ready | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 shepherd | det |
| 11 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 place | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 begged | obl |
| 15 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 18 litter | advmod |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 litter | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 litter | aux |
| 18 | litter | litter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 ready | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | whelp | to-infinitive | vn calve-28.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | beg speech: request | participle | a shepherd | for a place; earnestly property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent shepherd=Recipient for place=Topic | ||||
| 3 | litter | might | legend | tree rules |
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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