Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 112

The Father, unwilling to grant, and yet afraid to refuse his request, hit upon this expedient to rid himself of his importunities.

Who acts: Father, Lion · What happens: unwill, grant, refuse, hit, rid, request · To what, where: request, Lion

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: who acts (Father, Lion), 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 Father	det
2	Father	Father	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 unwilling	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Father	punct
4	unwilling	unwill	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	to	to	PART	_	6 grant	mark
6	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 unwilling	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 afraid	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 afraid	cc
9	yet	yet	ADV	_	10 afraid	advmod
10	afraid	afraid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 unwilling	advcl
11	to	to	PART	_	12 refuse	mark
12	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 afraid	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 request	nmod:poss
14	request	request	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 refuse	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 hit	punct
16	hit	hit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 refuse	conj
17	upon	upon	ADP	_	19 expedient	case
18	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	19 expedient	det
19	expedient	expedient	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 hit	obl
20	to	to	PART	_	21 rid	mark
21	rid	rid	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 hit	advcl
22	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 rid	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 importunities	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 importunities	nmod:poss
25	importunities	importunity	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 rid	obl
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 unwilling	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	unwill	gerund	the Father			tree rules
2	grant	to-infinitive	the Father not said here			vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	refuse	to-infinitive	the Father not said here	Lion's request		vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent request=Theme
4	hit	infinitive	the Father not said here		upon this expedient	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	rid	to-infinitive	the Father not said here	Lion	of Lion's importunities	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent himself=Source of importunity=Theme
6	request		Lion			nom request «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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