Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 142

When the Frogs discovered his easy good nature, they sent yet a third time to Jupiter to beg him to choose for them still another King.

Who acts: Frogs · What happens: discover, send, beg, choose · To what, where: easy good nature, Jupiter, King

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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 discovered	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Frogs	det
3	Frogs	Frog	PROPN	Number=Plur	4 discovered	nsubj
4	discovered	discover	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 sent	advcl
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 nature	nmod:poss
6	easy	easy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nature	amod
7	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 nature	amod
8	nature	nature	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 discovered	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 discovered	punct
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 sent	nsubj
11	sent	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	yet	yet	ADV	_	11 sent	advmod
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 time	det
14	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	15 time	amod
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 sent	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	17 Jupiter	case
17	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 time	nmod
18	to	to	PART	_	19 beg	mark
19	beg	beg	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 time	acl
20	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 beg	obj
21	to	to	PART	_	22 choose	mark
22	choose	choose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 beg	advcl
23	for	for	ADP	_	24 them	case
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 choose	obl
25	still	still	ADV	_	27 King	advmod
26	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	27 King	det
27	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 choose	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 sent	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	discover	past	the Frogs	Jupiter's easy good nature				vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nature=Topic
2	send	past	Frogs = frog			yet; time		vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	beg speech: request	to-infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here		Jupiter			vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient
4	choose	to-infinitive	Frogs = frog not said here	another King			for Frogs = frog	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for they=Beneficiary

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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