Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 55

The Monkey came with the rest and presented, with all a mother’s tenderness, a flat-nosed, hairless, ill-featured young Monkey as a candidate for the promised reward.

Who acts: Monkey · What happens: come, be, nose, promise

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 (Monkey), 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 Monkey	det
2	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	nsubj
3	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 rest	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 rest	det
6	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 came	obl
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 tenderness	cc
8	presented	present	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 tenderness	cop
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 tenderness	punct
10	with	with	ADP	_	15 tenderness	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 mother	det:predet
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	13 mother	det
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 tenderness	nmod:poss
14	’s	's	PART	_	13 mother	case
15	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 rest	conj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 nosed	punct
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 nosed	det
18	flat	flat	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nosed	compound
19	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 flat	punct
20	nosed	nose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 came	parataxis
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 hairless	punct
22	hairless	hairless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 nosed	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 Monkey	punct
24	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Monkey	amod
25	-	-	PUNCT	_	24 ill	punct
26	featured	featured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Monkey	amod
27	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	28 Monkey	amod
28	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 hairless	obl
29	as	as	ADP	_	31 candidate	case
30	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 candidate	det
31	candidate	candidate	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 Monkey	nmod
32	for	for	ADP	_	35 reward	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 reward	det
34	promised	promise	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	35 reward	amod
35	reward	reward	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 candidate	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 came	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	come	past	the Monkey	with the rest and all mother's tenderness	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	participle	the Monkey not said here	with all mother's tenderness	tree rules
3	nose	participle			vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
4	promise speech: promise	participle			vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=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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