Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 12
The King, as soon as he heard the tale, ordered the Lion to be set free again in the forest, and the Shepherd to be pardoned and restored to his friends.
Who acts: King · What happens: hear, order, be, pardon, restore · To what, where: tale, Lion, forest, Shepherd, friends
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 (King), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 King | det |
| 2 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 King | punct |
| 4 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 soon | advmod |
| 5 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 8 heard | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 heard | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 heard | nsubj |
| 8 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tale | det |
| 10 | tale | tale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 heard | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 ordered | punct |
| 12 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 heard | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Lion | det |
| 14 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 ordered | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 free | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 free | cop |
| 17 | set | set | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 free | amod |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 ordered | ccomp |
| 19 | again | again | ADV | _ | 18 free | advmod |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 forest | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 forest | det |
| 22 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 free | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 pardoned | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 pardoned | cc |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Shepherd | det |
| 26 | Shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 pardoned | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 pardoned | mark |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 29 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 heard | parataxis |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 restored | cc |
| 31 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 pardoned | conj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 34 friends | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 friends | nmod:poss |
| 34 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 restored | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | past | the King | the tale | soon property | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tale=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | order | past | the Lion | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | the forest | again | free property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | pardon | to-infinitive · passive | the Shepherd | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | restore | participle | Shepherd's friends | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to friend=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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