Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 50
Then summoning his laborers, he ordered that the Stag should be seized and killed.
Who acts: straw · What happens: summon, order, seize, kill · To what, where: laborers, Stag
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 (straw), 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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 summoning | advmod |
| 2 | summoning | summon | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 ordered | advcl |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 laborers | nmod:poss |
| 4 | laborers | laborer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 summoning | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 summoning | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ordered | nsubj |
| 7 | ordered | order | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 seized | mark |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Stag | det |
| 10 | Stag | Stag | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 seized | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 seized | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 seized | aux:pass |
| 13 | seized | seize | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 ordered | ccomp |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 killed | cc |
| 15 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 seized | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ordered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | summon | gerund | straw not said here | straw's laborers | then | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent laborer=Recipient | |||
| 2 | order | past | straw | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | seize | should · passive | the Stag | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | kill | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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