Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 3
He more particularly addressed himself to a File, and asked of him the favour of a meal.
Who acts: He · What happens: address, ask, favour · To what, where: himself, favour, meal
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 (He), 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 | 4 addressed | nsubj |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 3 particularly | advmod |
| 3 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 4 addressed | advmod |
| 4 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 addressed | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 File | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 File | det |
| 8 | File | file | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 addressed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 asked | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 asked | cc |
| 11 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 addressed | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 him | case |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 asked | obl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 favour | det |
| 15 | favour | favour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 asked | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 meal | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 meal | det |
| 18 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 favour | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 addressed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | address | past | He | himself = he | to a File; particularly property | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Destination | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | He not said here | the favour of a meal | of him = he | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent favour=Recipient | |||
| 3 | favour | a meal | nom favour «feeling transitive»: of=patient |
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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