Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 41

The Stag replied: “Only allow me, friend, to stay where I am, and I will undertake to find some favourable opportunity of effecting my escape.”

Who acts: Stag, favourable opportunity, my · What happens: reply, allow, stay, undertake, find, effect · To what, where: Stag, favourable opportunity, escape · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Stag, favourable opportunity, my), 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 Stag	det
2	Stag	Stag	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 allow	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 allow	punct
6	Only	only	ADV	_	7 allow	advmod
7	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
8	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	7 allow	iobj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 friend	punct
10	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 allow	vocative
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
12	to	to	PART	_	13 stay	mark
13	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 allow	parataxis
14	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 am	advmod
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 am	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 stay	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 undertake	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 undertake	cc
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 undertake	nsubj
20	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 undertake	aux
21	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 stay	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 undertake	xcomp
24	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	26 opportunity	det
25	favourable	favourable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 opportunity	amod
26	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 find	obj
27	of	of	SCONJ	_	28 effecting	mark
28	effecting	effect	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 opportunity	acl
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 escape	nmod:poss
30	escape	escape	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 effecting	obj
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 stay	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 allow	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Stag				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	allow in a quote	infinitive			the Stag = stag	friend vocative	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
3	stay in a quote	to-infinitive					vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	undertake in a quote	future	the Stag = stag				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	find in a quote	to-infinitive	the Stag = stag not said here	some favourable opportunity			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Topic
6	effect in a quote	gerund	some favourable opportunity not said here	my escape			tree rules
7	escape in a quote		my				nom escape «act intransitive»: poss=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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