Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 141
He then gave them an Eel to govern them.
Who acts: Jupiter · What happens: give, govern · To what, where: Eel, Frogs
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 (Jupiter), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 gave | advmod |
| 3 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gave | iobj |
| 5 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 Eel | det |
| 6 | Eel | eel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 gave | obj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 govern | mark |
| 8 | govern | govern | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 gave | advcl |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 govern | obj |
| 10 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | past | Jupiter | a Eel | Frogs = frog | then | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient eel=Theme | ||
| 2 | govern | to-infinitive | Jupiter not said here | Frogs = frog | vn supervision-95.2.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
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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