Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 3, sentence 77

A MIDDLE-AGED MAN, whose hair had begun to turn gray, courted two women at the same time.

Who acts: AGED MAN, gray · What happens: begin, turn, court · To what, where: gray, two women

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 (AGED MAN, gray), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 MAN	det
2	MIDDLE	middle	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 AGED	amod
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	2 MIDDLE	punct
4	AGED	aged	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 MAN	amod
5	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 begun	nsubj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 hair	punct
7	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	8 hair	nmod:poss
8	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 MAN	conj
9	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 begun	aux
10	begun	begin	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 turn	mark
12	turn	turn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 begun	xcomp
13	gray	gray	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 turn	obj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 courted	punct
15	courted	court	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 gray	acl
16	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 women	nummod
17	women	woman	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 courted	obj
18	at	at	ADP	_	21 time	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 time	det
20	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 time	amod
21	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 courted	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 begun	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	roles by
1	begin	past · perfect	a AGED MAN and a AGED MAN and a AGED MAN's hair's hair			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	turn	to-infinitive	a AGED MAN and a AGED MAN and a AGED MAN's hair's hair not said here	gray		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent gray=Theme
3	court	participle	gray not said here	two women	time	vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Co-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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