Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 58

The Peddler saw through his trick and drove him for the third time to the coast, where he bought a cargo of sponges instead of salt.

Who acts: Peddler · What happens: see, drive, buy, trick · To what, where: trick, PEDDLER, coast, cargo

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Peddler), 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 Peddler	det
2	Peddler	Peddler	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 saw	nsubj
3	saw	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	through	through	ADP	_	6 trick	case
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 trick	nmod:poss
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 saw	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 drove	cc
8	drove	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 drove	obj
10	for	for	ADP	_	13 time	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 time	det
12	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	13 time	amod
13	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drove	obl
14	to	to	ADP	_	16 coast	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 coast	det
16	coast	coast	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 drove	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 bought	punct
18	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	20 bought	advmod
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 bought	nsubj
20	bought	buy	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 saw	conj
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 cargo	det
22	cargo	cargo	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bought	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 sponges	case
24	sponges	sponge	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 cargo	nmod
25	instead	instead	ADV	ExtPos=ADP	27 salt	case
26	of	of	ADP	_	25 instead	fixed
27	salt	salt	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 bought	obl
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 saw	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	see	past	the Peddler		PEDDLER's trick			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	drive	past	the Peddler not said here	PEDDLER	the coast	time		vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent he=Theme to coast=Trajectory
3	buy	past	PEDDLER	a cargo of sponges			instead salt	vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cargo=Theme
4	trick		PEDDLER					nom trick «act 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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