Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 79

One day he met a friend, a Fuller, and entreated him to come and live with him, saying that they should be far better neighbors and that their housekeeping expenses would be lessened.

Who acts: Hare, friends · What happens: meet, entreat, come, live, say, be · To what, where: friend, Hare, better neighbors, housekeeping expenses · 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, friends), 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	One	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	2 day	nummod
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obl:unmarked
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 met	nsubj
4	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 friend	det
6	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 met	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Fuller	punct
8	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Fuller	det
9	Fuller	full	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	6 friend	acl:relcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 entreated	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 entreated	cc
12	entreated	entreat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 met	conj
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 entreated	obj
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 entreated	xcomp
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 live	cc
17	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 come	conj
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 him	case
19	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 live	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 saying	punct
21	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 live	advcl
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	28 neighbors	mark
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 neighbors	nsubj
24	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 neighbors	aux
25	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	28 neighbors	cop
26	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	27 better	advmod
27	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	28 neighbors	amod
28	neighbors	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 saying	ccomp
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 lessened	cc
30	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 lessened	mark
31	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 expenses	nmod:poss
32	housekeeping	housekeeping	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 expenses	compound
33	expenses	expense	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 lessened	nsubj:pass
34	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	36 lessened	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	36 lessened	aux:pass
36	lessened	lessen	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 neighbors	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 met	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	meet	past	Hare	a friend	day		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Co-Agent
2	entreat	past	Hare not said here	Hare			vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	come	to-infinitive	Hare not said here				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	live	infinitive	Hare not said here			with Hare	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with he=Location
5	say speech: assert	gerund	Hare not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	is a	should	friends = friend	better neighbors			tree rules
7	lessen	would · passive		friends's housekeeping expenses			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient

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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