Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 102

At last the Goatherd threw a stone, and breaking its horn, begged the Goat not to tell his master.

What happens: throw, break, beg, not tell · To what, where: stone, last Goatherd, horn, Goat, master · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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	At	at	ADP	_	4 Goatherd	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 Goatherd	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Goatherd	det
4	Goatherd	Goatherd	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obl
5	threw	throw	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 stone	det
7	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 threw	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 begged	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 begged	cc
10	breaking	break	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 begged	advcl
11	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 horn	nmod:poss
12	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 breaking	obj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 breaking	punct
14	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 threw	conj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Goat	det
16	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 begged	obj
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 tell	advmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 tell	mark
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 begged	ccomp
20	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 master	nmod:poss
21	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 tell	obj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 threw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	throw	past	a stone		the last Goatherd	vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at goatherd=Destination
2	break	gerund	straggler's horn			vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer horn=Patient
3	beg speech: request	past		the Goat		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent goat=Recipient clause=Topic
4	not tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	Goatherd's master			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent master=Recipient

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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