Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 59
The Lion agreed to assist the Wild Ass with his strength, while the Wild Ass gave the Lion the benefit of his greater speed.
Who acts: Lion, Wild Ass · What happens: agree, assist, give · To what, where: Wild Ass, benefit, Lion
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 (Lion, Wild Ass), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 assist | mark |
| 5 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 agreed | xcomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Ass | det |
| 7 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Ass | compound |
| 8 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 assist | obj |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 strength | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 strength | nmod:poss |
| 11 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Ass | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 gave | punct |
| 13 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 gave | mark |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Ass | det |
| 15 | Wild | Wild | PROPN | _ | 16 Ass | flat |
| 16 | Ass | Ass | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | nsubj |
| 17 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | conj |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lion | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 benefit | det |
| 21 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gave | obj |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 speed | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 speed | nmod:poss |
| 24 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 25 speed | amod |
| 25 | speed | speed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 benefit | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Lion | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | assist not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Lion not said here | the Wild Ass | with Ass's strength | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent ass=Beneficiary with strength=Theme | |||
| 3 | give | past | the Wild Ass | the benefit of Ass's greater speed | the Lion | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent lion=Recipient benefit=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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