Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 65

THE SHE-GOATS having obtained a beard by request to Jupiter, the He-Goats were sorely displeased and made complaint that the females equaled them in dignity.

Who acts: request, females · What happens: obtain, displease, make, equal · To what, where: SHE GOATS, Jupiter, Goats, dignity

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 (request, females), 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	THE	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 GOATS	det
2	SHE	she	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 GOATS	compound
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 SHE	punct
4	GOATS	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 obtained	nsubj:pass
5	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 obtained	aux
6	obtained	obtain	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 beard	det
8	beard	beard	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtained	obj
9	by	by	ADP	_	10 request	case
10	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 obtained	obl
11	to	to	ADP	_	12 Jupiter	case
12	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 request	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 complaint	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 complaint	det
15	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 displeased	nsubj
16	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 He	punct
17	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 displeased	nsubj:pass
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 displeased	aux:pass
19	sorely	sorely	ADV	_	20 displeased	advmod
20	displeased	displease	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	23 complaint	amod
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 displeased	conj
23	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 Jupiter	appos
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 equaled	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 females	det
26	females	female	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 equaled	nsubj
27	equaled	equal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 complaint	acl:relcl
28	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 equaled	obj
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 dignity	case
30	dignity	dignity	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 equaled	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 obtained	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	obtain	gerund · perfect · passive	request to Jupiter	the SHE GOATS			tree rules
2	displease	past · passive		Jupiter		sorely property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
3	make	participle					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	equal	past	the females	Goats = goat	dignity		tree rules

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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