Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 128

Being in want of food, he called to a Sheep who was passing, and asked him to fetch some water from a stream flowing close beside him.

Who acts: Wolf, Sheep, stream · What happens: be, call, pass, ask, fetch, flow · To what, where: want, Sheep, Wolf, water, stream · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wolf, Sheep, stream), 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	Being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 want	cop
2	in	in	ADP	_	3 want	case
3	want	want	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	parataxis
4	of	of	ADP	_	5 food	case
5	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 want	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 want	punct
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 called	nsubj
8	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	to	to	ADP	_	11 Sheep	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 Sheep	det
11	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 called	obl
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 passing	nsubj
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 passing	aux
14	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 Sheep	acl:relcl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 asked	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 asked	cc
17	asked	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 called	conj
18	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 asked	iobj
19	to	to	PART	_	20 fetch	mark
20	fetch	fetch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 asked	xcomp
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 water	det
22	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetch	obj
23	from	from	ADP	_	25 stream	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 stream	det
25	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 fetch	obl
26	flowing	flow	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	25 stream	acl
27	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 flowing	advmod
28	beside	beside	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 flowing	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund				want	of food	tree rules
2	call speech: assert	past	Wolf		a Sheep			vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sheep=Recipient
3	pass	past · progressive	a Sheep					vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	ask speech: ask	past	Wolf not said here		Wolf			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
5	fetch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here	some water		a stream		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent water=Theme from stream=Source
6	flow	gerund	a stream not said here				beside Wolf; close property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Location

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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