Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 71

The Hare, believing her assertion to be simply impossible, assented to the proposal; and they agreed that the Fox should choose the course and fix the goal.

Who acts: Hare, Fox, Tortoise · What happens: believe, be, assent, agree, choose, fix · To what, where: assertion, course, goal · 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 (Hare, Fox, Tortoise), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 agreed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 believing	punct
4	believing	believe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Hare	acl
5	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 assertion	nmod:poss
6	assertion	assertion	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 believing	obj
7	to	to	PART	_	10 impossible	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	10 impossible	cop
9	simply	simply	ADV	_	10 impossible	advmod
10	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 believing	ccomp
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 assented	punct
12	assented	assent	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 impossible	conj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 proposal	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 proposal	det
15	proposal	proposal	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 assented	obl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 agreed	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 agreed	cc
18	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 agreed	nsubj
19	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
20	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 choose	mark
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 Fox	det
22	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 choose	nsubj
23	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 choose	aux
24	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 agreed	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 course	det
26	course	course	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 choose	obj
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 fix	cc
28	fix	fix	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 choose	conj
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 goal	det
30	goal	goal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 fix	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	19 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	believe	gerund	the Hare not said here	Tortoise's assertion		vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer assertion=Stimulus
2	is	to-infinitive			impossible, simply property	tree rules
3	assent	participle			to the proposal	tree rules
4	agree speech: agree	past	the Hare			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	choose not said to happen	should	the Fox	the course		vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent course=Theme
6	fix	infinitive	the Fox not said here	the goal		vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent goal=Patient
7	assert		Tortoise			nom assertion «communication transitive»: 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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