Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 87

She said, “All things are prospering with me, and I have only one wish, that there may be a heavy fall of rain, in order that the plants may be well watered.”

Who acts: gardener, things, prospering, order · What happens: say, prosper, have, be, water · To what, where: one wish, heavy fall, plants · 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 (gardener, things, prospering, order), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 said	nsubj
2	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 prospering	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	8 prospering	punct
5	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	6 things	det
6	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 prospering	nsubj
7	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prospering	aux
8	prospering	prosper	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	25 fall	csubj
9	with	with	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 prospering	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 have	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 have	cc
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 have	nsubj
14	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 prospering	conj
15	only	only	ADV	_	16 one	advmod
16	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	17 wish	nummod
17	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 have	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 be	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 be	mark
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	22 be	expl
21	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 be	aux
22	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 fall	cop
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 fall	det
24	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 fall	amod
25	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 said	ccomp
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 rain	case
27	rain	rain	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 order	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 order	case
30	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 fall	parataxis
31	that	that	SCONJ	_	37 watered	mark
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 plants	det
33	plants	plant	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 watered	nsubj:pass
34	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 watered	aux
35	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	37 watered	aux:pass
36	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	37 watered	advmod
37	watered	water	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 order	acl
38	.	.	PUNCT	_	30 order	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 fall	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	gardener			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	prosper in a quote	present · progressive	all things		with gardener	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	have in a quote	present	gardener	one wish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
4	is a in a quote	infinitive	prospering	a heavy fall	of rain	tree rules
5	water in a quote	may · passive	order not said here	the plants	well property	vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: subject=Destination

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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