Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 4, sentence 93

He next time stole a cloak and brought it to her, and she again commended him.

Who acts: BOY, Mother · What happens: steal, bring, commend · To what, where: cloak, Mother, BOY

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 (BOY, Mother), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 stole	nsubj
2	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 time	amod
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obl:unmarked
4	stole	steal	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 cloak	det
6	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 stole	obj
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 brought	cc
8	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stole	conj
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 brought	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 commended	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 commended	cc
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 commended	nsubj
15	again	again	ADV	_	16 commended	advmod
16	commended	commend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 stole	conj
17	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 commended	obj
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 stole	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	roles by
1	steal	past	BOY	a cloak		time	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location cloak=Theme
2	bring	past	BOY not said here	cloak	Mother		vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to she=Destination
3	commend	past	Mother	BOY		again	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme

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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