Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 8
“Pray save me, Master,” he said, “and let me go free this once.
Who acts: Stork · What happens: pray, save, say, let, go · To what, where: Stork, this · 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: who acts (Stork), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 2 | Pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 save | reparandum |
| 3 | save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 save | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Master | punct |
| 6 | Master | Master | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 save | vocative |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 save | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 let | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 let | cc |
| 14 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | ccomp |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 let | obj |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 let | xcomp |
| 17 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 go | xcomp |
| 18 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 16 go | advmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pray in a quote | infinitive | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||||
| 2 | save in a quote | infinitive | Stork | Master vocative | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Stork | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let in a quote | infinitive | Stork | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go in a quote | infinitive | Stork not said here | this | free, once property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/4/8/