Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 15
He went to Jupiter, and besought him to give him horns.
Who acts: Shepherd · What happens: go, beseech, give · To what, where: Jupiter, Shepherd, horns
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 went | nsubj |
| 2 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Jupiter | case |
| 4 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 went | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 besought | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 besought | cc |
| 7 | besought | beseech | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 went | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 besought | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 give | mark |
| 10 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 besought | xcomp |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 give | iobj |
| 12 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 give | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Shepherd | Jupiter | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to jupiter=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | beseech | past | Shepherd not said here | Shepherd | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | Shepherd not said here | horns | Shepherd | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient horn=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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