Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 53

Venus consented to her request and transformed her into a beautiful damsel, so that the youth saw her and loved her, and took her home as his bride.

Who acts: Venus, youth · What happens: consent, transform, see, love, take, request · To what, where: Venus, beautiful damsel, home

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 (Venus, youth), 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	Venus	Venus	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 consented	nsubj
2	consented	consent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	to	to	ADP	_	5 request	case
4	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 request	nmod:poss
5	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 consented	obl
6	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 transformed	cc
7	transformed	transform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 consented	conj
8	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 transformed	obj
9	into	into	ADP	_	12 damsel	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 damsel	det
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 damsel	amod
12	damsel	damsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 transformed	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 saw	punct
14	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	18 saw	mark
15	that	that	SCONJ	_	14 so	fixed
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 youth	det
17	youth	youth	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 saw	nsubj
18	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 consented	parataxis
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 saw	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 loved	cc
21	loved	love	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 saw	conj
22	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 loved	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 took	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 took	cc
25	took	take	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 consented	conj
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 home	nmod:poss
27	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obj
28	as	as	ADP	_	30 bride	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 bride	nmod:poss
30	bride	bride	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 took	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 consented	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	consent	past	Venus		to Venus's request	vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=Theme
2	transform	past	Venus not said here	Venus	into a beautiful damsel result	vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V NP.patient PP.result»: agent=Agent she=Patient into damsel=Result
3	see	past	the youth	Venus		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
4	love	past	the youth not said here	Venus		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=Stimulus
5	take	past	Venus not said here	Venus's home	as youth's bride	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent home=Theme as bride=Attribute
6	request		Venus			nom request «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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