Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 103

In the desire to prove to him his mistake, his Mother placed before him a few grains of frankincense, and asked, “What is it?”

Who acts: Mother, driver · What happens: prove, place, ask, be, mistake · To what, where: mistake, driver, desire, few grains, grain · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, driver), 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	In	in	ADP	_	3 desire	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 desire	det
3	desire	desire	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prove	obl
4	to	to	PART	_	5 prove	mark
5	prove	prove	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	ADP	_	7 him	case
7	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 prove	obl
8	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 mistake	nmod:poss
9	mistake	mistake	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 prove	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 placed	punct
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 Mother	nmod:poss
12	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 placed	nsubj
13	placed	place	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 prove	parataxis
14	before	before	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 placed	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 grains	det
17	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 grains	amod
18	grains	grain	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 placed	obj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 frankincense	case
20	frankincense	frankincense	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 grains	nmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 asked	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 asked	cc
23	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 placed	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 What	punct
25	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 What	punct
26	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	23 asked	parataxis
27	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 it	cop
28	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 What	nsubj
29	?	?	PUNCT	_	5 prove	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 prove	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	roles by
1	prove	to-infinitive		driver's mistake	driver	the desire		vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mistake=Theme
2	place	past	driver's Mother	a few grains of frankincense			before driver	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grain=Theme before he=Destination
3	ask speech: ask	past	driver's Mother not said here					vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present		grain				tree rules
5	mistake		driver					nom mistake «act intransitive»: 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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