Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 85
AN ASS besought a Horse to spare him a small portion of his feed.
Who acts: ASS · What happens: beseech, spare · To what, where: Horse
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 (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 | AN | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 ASS | det |
| 2 | ASS | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 besought | nsubj |
| 3 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Horse | det |
| 5 | Horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 besought | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 spare | mark |
| 7 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 besought | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 spare | obj |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 portion | det |
| 10 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 portion | amod |
| 11 | portion | portion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 spare | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 feed | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 feed | nmod:poss |
| 14 | feed | feed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 portion | nmod |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 besought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beseech | past | a ASS | a Horse | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | spare | to-infinitive | a ASS not said here | Horse | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient portion=Asset |
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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