Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 100

On his way he met a man on horseback who begged the hare of him, under the pretense of purchasing it.

Who acts: hare, man, pretense · What happens: meet, beg, purchase · To what, where: way, hare, pretense

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare, man, pretense), 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	On	on	ADP	_	3 way	case
2	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 way	nmod:poss
3	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 met	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 met	nsubj
5	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 man	det
7	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	nsubj
8	on	on	ADP	_	9 horseback	case
9	horseback	horseback	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 man	nmod
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 begged	nsubj
11	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 met	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 hare	det
13	hare	hare	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 hare	nmod
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 pretense	punct
17	under	under	ADP	_	19 pretense	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 pretense	det
19	pretense	pretense	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 begged	obl
20	of	of	SCONJ	_	21 purchasing	mark
21	purchasing	purchase	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 pretense	acl
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 purchasing	obj
23	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	meet	past	hare			hare's way	vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	beg speech: request	past	a man on horseback		the hare of hare	the pretense	vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent hare=Recipient
3	purchase	gerund	the pretense not said here	pretense			vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Theme

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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