Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 23

Minerva, wondering why they had preferred trees not yielding fruit, inquired the reason for their choice.

Who acts: Minerva, Venus · What happens: wonder, prefer, not yield, inquire · To what, where: trees, fruit, reason · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Minerva, Venus), 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	Minerva	minerva	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inquired	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 wondering	punct
3	wondering	wonder	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Minerva	acl
4	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 preferred	advmod
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 preferred	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 preferred	aux
7	preferred	prefer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 wondering	ccomp
8	trees	tree	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 preferred	obj
9	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 yielding	advmod
10	yielding	yield	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 preferred	advcl
11	fruit	fruit	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 yielding	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Minerva	punct
13	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 reason	det
15	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 inquired	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 choice	case
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 choice	nmod:poss
18	choice	choice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 reason	nmod
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 inquired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	wonder speech: ask	gerund	Minerva not said here			vn care-88.1-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	prefer	past · perfect	Venus	trees		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer tree=Stimulus
3	not yield	gerund	Venus not said here	fruit		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme
4	inquire speech: other	past	Minerva	the reason	for Venus's choice	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent reason=Recipient

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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