Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 40
Later, another neighbor purchased him and allowed his feathers to grow again.
Who acts: neighbor, feathers · What happens: purchase, allow, grow · To what, where: man, feathers
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 (neighbor, feathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Checked tree. This sentence is in the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (gutenberg:pg21:1309): parsed by Mova, then checked and patched by a teacher model under UD validation gates — Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 purchased | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Later | punct |
| 3 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 neighbor | det |
| 4 | neighbor | neighbor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 purchased | nsubj |
| 5 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 purchased | obj |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 allowed | cc |
| 8 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 purchased | conj |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 feathers | nmod:poss |
| 10 | feathers | feather | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 allowed | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 grow | mark |
| 12 | grow | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 allowed | xcomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 grow | advmod |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 purchased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | past | another neighbor | man | late property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Theme | |||
| 2 | allow | past | another neighbor not said here | man's feathers | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer feather=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | grow not said to happen | to-infinitive | man's feathers not said here | again | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3, Apache-2.0 OR MIT. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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