Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 15
The Huntsman wished to have the fish, and their owner experienced an equal longing for the contents of the game-bag.
Who acts: Huntsman, owner · What happens: wish, have, experience · To what, where: fish, equal longing
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 5. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Huntsman, owner), 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 Huntsman | det |
| 2 | Huntsman | Huntsman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 wished | nsubj |
| 3 | wished | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 have | mark |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wished | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fish | det |
| 7 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 experienced | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 experienced | cc |
| 10 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 owner | nmod:poss |
| 11 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 experienced | nsubj |
| 12 | experienced | experience | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wished | advcl |
| 13 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 longing | det |
| 14 | equal | equal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 longing | amod |
| 15 | longing | longing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 experienced | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 contents | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 contents | det |
| 18 | contents | contents | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 12 experienced | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 bag | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bag | det |
| 21 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bag | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 game | punct |
| 23 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 contents | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wish | past | the Huntsman | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | have not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Huntsman not said here | the fish | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fish=Patient | ||||
| 3 | experience | past | Huntsman's owner | a equal longing | for the contents of the game bag | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer longing=Stimulus |
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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