Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 79

A RICH NOBLEMAN once opened the theaters without charge to the people, and gave a public notice that he would handsomely reward any person who invented a new amusement for the occasion.

Who acts: RICH NOBLEMAN, NOBLEMAN, person · What happens: open, give, reward, invent · To what, where: theaters, public notice, person, new amusement

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 (RICH NOBLEMAN, NOBLEMAN, person), 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	3 NOBLEMAN	det
2	RICH	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 NOBLEMAN	amod
3	NOBLEMAN	nobleman	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	nsubj
4	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	5 opened	advmod
5	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 theaters	det
7	theaters	theater	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 opened	obj
8	without	without	ADP	_	9 charge	case
9	charge	charge	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 opened	obl
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 people	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 people	det
12	people	people	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 charge	nmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 gave	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 gave	cc
15	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 opened	conj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 notice	det
17	public	public	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 notice	amod
18	notice	notice	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 gave	obj
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 reward	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 reward	nsubj
21	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 reward	aux
22	handsomely	handsomely	ADV	_	23 reward	advmod
23	reward	reward	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 gave	advcl
24	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	25 person	det
25	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 reward	obj
26	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	27 invented	nsubj
27	invented	invent	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 person	acl:relcl
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 amusement	det
29	new	new	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 amusement	amod
30	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 invented	obj
31	for	for	ADP	_	33 occasion	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 occasion	det
33	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 invented	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 opened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	open	past	a RICH NOBLEMAN	the theaters		without charge to the people; once property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location theater=Theme
2	give	past	a RICH NOBLEMAN not said here	a public notice			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent notice=Theme
3	reward	would	NOBLEMAN		any person	handsomely property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent person=Recipient
4	invent	past	any person	a new amusement		for the occasion	vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent amusement=Result for occasion=Beneficiary

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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