Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 64
A Grasshopper, perishing with famine, passed by and earnestly begged for a little food.
Who acts: Grasshopper · What happens: perish, pass by, beg · To what, where: Grasshopper
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 (Grasshopper), 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 Grasshopper | det |
| 2 | Grasshopper | grasshopper | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 perishing | punct |
| 4 | perishing | perish | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 Grasshopper | acl |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 famine | case |
| 6 | famine | famine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perishing | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 passed | punct |
| 8 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Grasshopper | acl |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 8 passed | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 begged | cc |
| 11 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 12 begged | advmod |
| 12 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 passed | conj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 food | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 food | det |
| 15 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 food | amod |
| 16 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 begged | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Grasshopper | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perish | gerund | a Grasshopper not said here | with famine | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | pass by | participle | a Grasshopper not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | participle | for a little food; earnestly property | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent for food=Topic |
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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