Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 43

The Stag, congratulating himself on his safety, began to express his sincere thanks to the Oxen who had kindly helped him in the hour of need.

Who acts: Stag, Oxen · What happens: congratulate, begin, express, help · To what, where: Stag, safety, sincere thanks, Oxen

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, Oxen), 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	10 began	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 congratulating	punct
4	congratulating	congratulate	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Stag	acl
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 congratulating	obj
6	on	on	ADP	_	8 safety	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 safety	nmod:poss
8	safety	safety	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 congratulating	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Stag	punct
10	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 express	mark
12	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 began	xcomp
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 thanks	nmod:poss
14	sincere	sincere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thanks	amod
15	thanks	thanks	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 express	obj
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 Oxen	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Oxen	det
18	Oxen	ox	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 thanks	nmod
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 helped	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 helped	aux
21	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	22 helped	advmod
22	helped	help	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 Oxen	acl:relcl
23	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 helped	obj
24	in	in	ADP	_	26 hour	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 hour	det
26	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 helped	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 need	case
28	need	need	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hour	nmod
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 began	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	congratulate	gerund	the Stag not said here	Stag		Stag's safety			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	begin	past	the Stag						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	express	to-infinitive	the Stag not said here	Stag's sincere thanks	the Oxen				vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent thanks=Theme to ox=Recipient
4	help	past · perfect	the Oxen		Stag		hour	kindly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary

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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