Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 136
THE FROGS, grieved at having no established Ruler, sent ambassadors to Jupiter entreating for a King.
Who acts: FROGS · What happens: grieve, have, establish, send, entreat · To what, where: FROGS, established Ruler, ambassadors, Jupiter
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 (FROGS), 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 FROGS | det |
| 2 | FROGS | frog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 grieved | punct |
| 4 | grieved | grieve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 FROGS | acl |
| 5 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 6 having | mark |
| 6 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 grieved | advcl |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 9 Ruler | det |
| 8 | established | establish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 Ruler | amod |
| 9 | Ruler | ruler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 having | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 FROGS | punct |
| 11 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | ambassadors | ambassador | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 sent | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 Jupiter | case |
| 14 | Jupiter | Jupiter | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 sent | obl |
| 15 | entreating | entreat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 sent | advcl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 King | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 entreating | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 sent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grieve | participle | the FROGS not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | have | gerund | no established Ruler | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruler=Patient | |||||
| 3 | establish | participle | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 4 | send | past | the FROGS | ambassadors | Jupiter | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme to jupiter=Destination | |||
| 5 | entreat | gerund | the FROGS not said here | for a King | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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