Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 24

A WOLF who had a bone stuck in his throat hired a Crane, for a large sum, to put her head into his mouth and draw out the bone.

Who acts: WOLF · What happens: have, stick, hire, put, draw out · To what, where: bone, throat, Crane, head, mouth

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 (WOLF), 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	2 WOLF	det
2	WOLF	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hired	nsubj
3	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	4 had	nsubj
4	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 WOLF	acl:relcl
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 bone	det
6	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 had	obj
7	stuck	stick	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 bone	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	10 throat	case
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 throat	nmod:poss
10	throat	throat	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 stuck	obl
11	hired	hire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 Crane	det
13	Crane	crane	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hired	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 sum	punct
15	for	for	ADP	_	18 sum	case
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 sum	det
17	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 sum	amod
18	sum	sum	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hired	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 put	punct
20	to	to	PART	_	21 put	mark
21	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hired	advcl
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 head	nmod:poss
23	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obj
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 mouth	case
25	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 mouth	nmod:poss
26	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 put	obl
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 draw	cc
28	draw	draw	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 put	conj
29	out	out	ADP	_	28 draw	compound:prt
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 bone	det
31	bone	bone	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 draw	obj
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 hired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	a WOLF	a bone			vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=Patient
2	stick	participle		a bone not said here	Grasshopper's throat		vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme in throat=Destination
3	hire	past	a WOLF	a Crane		for a large sum	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent crane=Theme for sum=Beneficiary
4	put	to-infinitive	a WOLF not said here	Sirrah's head	Grasshopper's mouth		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent head=Goal
5	draw out	infinitive	a WOLF not said here	the bone			vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bone=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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