Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 47

With these words he stretched out his hands toward a thorn-tree, meaning to cut a stick from its branches so that he might beat the lion.

Who acts: dream · What happens: stretch out, mean, cut, beat · To what, where: hands, stick, branches, lion

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 (dream), 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	With	with	ADP	_	3 words	case
2	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	3 words	det
3	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stretched	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 stretched	nsubj
5	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	out	out	ADP	_	5 stretched	compound:prt
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 hands	nmod:poss
8	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 stretched	obj
9	toward	toward	ADP	_	13 tree	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 tree	det
11	thorn	thorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 tree	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 thorn	punct
13	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 stretched	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 meaning	punct
15	meaning	mean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 stretched	advcl
16	to	to	PART	_	17 cut	mark
17	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 meaning	xcomp
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 stick	det
19	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 cut	obj
20	from	from	ADP	_	22 branches	case
21	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 branches	nmod:poss
22	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cut	obl
23	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 beat	mark
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 so	fixed
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 beat	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 beat	aux
27	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 cut	advcl
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 lion	det
29	lion	lion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 beat	obj
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 stretched	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	stretch out	past	dream	dream's hands		with this words; toward a thorn tree	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent hand=Patient with word=Instrument
2	mean	gerund	dream not said here				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	cut not said to happen	to-infinitive	dream not said here	a stick	tree's branches		vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V PP»: agent=Asset stick=Product from branch=Material
4	beat	might	dream	the lion			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location lion=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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