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

THE CAMEL, when he saw the Bull adorned with horns, envied him and wished that he himself could obtain the same honours.

Who acts: CAMEL, Bull, Shepherd · What happens: see, adorn, envy, wish, obtain · To what, where: Shepherd, same honours · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (CAMEL, Bull, Shepherd), 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 CAMEL	det
2	CAMEL	camel	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 saw	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 CAMEL	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 saw	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 saw	nsubj
6	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bull	det
8	Bull	Bull	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 adorned	nsubj
9	adorned	adorn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	ccomp
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 horns	case
11	horns	horn	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 adorned	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 envied	punct
13	envied	envy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 saw	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 envied	obj
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 wished	cc
16	wished	wish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 envied	conj
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 obtain	mark
18	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 obtain	nsubj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 obtain	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 obtain	aux
21	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 wished	advcl
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 honours	det
23	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 honours	amod
24	honours	honour	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 obtain	obj
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	see	past	the CAMEL			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	adorn	past	the Bull		with horns	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with horn=Theme
3	envy	past	the CAMEL not said here	Shepherd		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
4	wish	past	the CAMEL not said here			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
5	obtain	could	Shepherd	the same honours		vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honour=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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