Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 5

He paid no attention to their request, but gave the tree a second and a third blow with his axe.

Who acts: Tree, grasshoppers · What happens: pay, give, request · To what, where: attention, tree

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 (Tree, grasshoppers), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 paid	nsubj
2	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	4 attention	det
4	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 request	case
6	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 request	nmod:poss
7	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 paid	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 gave	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 gave	cc
10	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 paid	parataxis
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 tree	det
12	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 second	det
14	second	second	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 blow	cc
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 blow	det
17	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	18 blow	amod
18	blow	blow	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 gave	conj
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 axe	case
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 axe	nmod:poss
21	axe	axe	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 blow	nmod
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 paid	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	pay	past	Tree	no attention		to grasshoppers's request	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset
2	give	past		the tree	second		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tree=Theme
3	request		grasshoppers = grasshopper				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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