Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 8

Soon afterward he came up to a Shepherd and fawned upon him, wagging his tail as if to say, “I am a suppliant, and seek your aid.”

Who acts: File · What happens: come up, fawn, wag, say, be, seek · To what, where: tail, aid · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (File), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 came	advmod
2	afterward	afterward	SCONJ	_	4 came	mark
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 came	nsubj
4	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	up	up	ADV	_	4 came	advmod
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 Shepherd	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 Shepherd	det
8	Shepherd	shepherd	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 came	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 fawned	cc
10	fawned	fawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 came	conj
11	upon	upon	ADP	_	12 him	case
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 fawned	obl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wagging	punct
14	wagging	wag	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 fawned	advcl
15	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 tail	nmod:poss
16	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 wagging	obj
17	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 say	mark
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 say	mark
19	to	to	PART	_	20 say	mark
20	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 wagging	advcl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 suppliant	punct
22	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 suppliant	punct
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 suppliant	nsubj
24	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 suppliant	cop
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 suppliant	det
26	suppliant	suppliant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 fawned	conj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 seek	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 seek	cc
29	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 came	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 aid	nmod:poss
31	aid	aid	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 seek	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	29 seek	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	29 seek	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	come up	past	File		to a Shepherd; soon property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to shepherd=Initial_Location
2	fawn	past	File not said here		upon File	vn calve-28.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	wag	gerund	File not said here	File's tail		vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
4	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	File not said here			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is in a quote	present	File		suppliant property	tree rules
6	seek in a quote	infinitive	File not said here	your aid		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent aid=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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