Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 88

Not long after, he went to the daughter who had married the tilemaker, and likewise inquired of her how she fared; she replied, “I want for nothing, and have only one wish, that the dry weather may continue, and the sun shine hot and bright, so that the bricks might be dried.”

Who acts: man, gardener, dry weather, sun · What happens: go, marry, inquire, fare, reply, want · To what, where: daughter, one wish, bricks · 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 (man, gardener, dry weather, sun), 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	Not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 long	advmod
2	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 after	advmod
3	after	after	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 after	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 went	nsubj
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 daughter	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 daughter	det
9	daughter	daughter	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 married	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 married	aux
12	married	marry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 daughter	acl:relcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 tilemaker	det
14	tilemaker	tilemaker	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 married	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 inquired	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 inquired	cc
17	likewise	likewise	ADV	_	18 inquired	advmod
18	inquired	inquire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	conj
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 her	case
20	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 inquired	obl
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 fared	advmod
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 fared	nsubj
23	fared	fare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 inquired	advcl
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 replied	punct
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 replied	nsubj
26	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 went	parataxis
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
28	“	"	PUNCT	_	30 want	punct
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 want	nsubj
30	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 replied	ccomp
31	for	for	ADP	_	32 nothing	case
32	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	30 want	obl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 have	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 have	cc
35	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 want	parataxis
36	only	only	ADV	_	37 one	advmod
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 wish	nummod
38	wish	wish	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 have	obj
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 continue	punct
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	45 continue	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 weather	det
42	dry	dry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 weather	amod
43	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 continue	nsubj
44	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	45 continue	aux
45	continue	continue	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 have	conj
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 shine	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 shine	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 sun	det
49	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	50 shine	nsubj
50	shine	shine	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 went	parataxis
51	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 shine	xcomp
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	53 bright	cc
53	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 hot	conj
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	61 dried	punct
55	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	61 dried	mark
56	that	that	SCONJ	_	55 so	fixed
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 bricks	det
58	bricks	brick	NOUN	Number=Plur	61 dried	nsubj:pass
59	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 dried	aux
60	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 dried	aux:pass
61	dried	dry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	50 shine	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	go	past	man		to the daughter; after property	vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	marry	past · perfect · passive		the daughter		tree rules
3	inquire speech: other	past	man not said here		of gardener; likewise property	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of she=Recipient
4	fare	past	gardener			tree rules
5	reply speech: assert	past	gardener			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	want in a quote	present	gardener		for nothing	vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
7	have in a quote	present		one wish		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Patient
8	continue in a quote	may	the dry weather			vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
9	shine in a quote	infinitive	the sun		hot property	vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	dry in a quote	might · passive		the bricks		vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Result

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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