Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 23
Then they who had spared his life, fearing for their safety, surrendered to him their flocks and begged only for their lives.
What happens: spare, fear, surrender, beg · To what, where: Panther, flocks, Shepherd, lives
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: 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 spared | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 spared | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 spared | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spared | aux |
| 5 | spared | spare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spared | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 fearing | punct |
| 9 | fearing | fear | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 spared | advcl |
| 10 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 safety | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 safety | nmod:poss |
| 12 | safety | safety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fearing | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 surrendered | punct |
| 14 | surrendered | surrender | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 spared | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 surrendered | obl |
| 17 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 flocks | nmod:poss |
| 18 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 surrendered | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 begged | cc |
| 20 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 surrendered | conj |
| 21 | only | only | ADV | _ | 24 lives | advmod |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 lives | case |
| 23 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lives | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lives | life | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 begged | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 spared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare | past · perfect · passive | Panther | then | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Recipient life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | fear | gerund | for Panther's safety | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer for safety=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | surrender | past | Panther's flocks | Shepherd | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent flock=Theme to he=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | beg speech: request | past | Panther's lives | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent life=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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