Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 52

A CAT fell in love with a handsome young man, and entreated Venus to change her into the form of a woman.

Who acts: CAT · What happens: fall, entreat, change, form · To what, where: love, Venus, form, woman

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 (CAT), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 CAT	det
2	CAT	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 love	case
5	love	love	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
6	with	with	ADP	_	10 man	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
8	handsome	handsome	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
9	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 entreated	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 entreated	cc
13	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 fell	conj
14	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 entreated	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 change	mark
16	change	change	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 entreated	advcl
17	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 change	obj
18	into	into	ADP	_	20 form	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 form	det
20	form	form	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 change	obl
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 woman	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 woman	det
23	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 form	nmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	a CAT			love	with a handsome young man	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in love=Location
2	entreat	past	a CAT not said here		Venus			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent venus=Recipient
3	change	to-infinitive	a CAT not said here	Venus			into the form of a woman result	vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into form=Result
4	form			a woman				nom form «communication 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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