Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 89
When her request was granted, she besought permission to rear her puppies in the same spot.
Who acts: legend · What happens: grant, beseech, rear, request · To what, where: request, permission, puppies, same spot
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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 granted | mark |
| 2 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 request | nmod:poss |
| 3 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 granted | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 granted | aux:pass |
| 5 | granted | grant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 besought | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 granted | punct |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 besought | nsubj |
| 8 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 besought | obj |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 rear | mark |
| 11 | rear | rear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 permission | acl |
| 12 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 puppies | nmod:poss |
| 13 | puppies | puppy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 rear | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 spot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spot | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spot | amod |
| 17 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 rear | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grant | past · passive | legend's request | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 2 | beseech | past | legend | permission | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | rear | to-infinitive | legend not said here | legend's puppies | the same spot | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent puppy=Patient | |||
| 4 | request | legend | nom request «communication 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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