Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 60

When they had taken as many beasts as their necessities required, the Lion undertook to distribute the prey, and for this purpose divided it into three shares.

Who acts: Benefits, Lion · What happens: take, require, undertake, distribute, divide · To what, where: necessities, prey, three shares

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 (Benefits, Lion), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 taken	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 taken	nsubj
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	aux
4	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	as	as	ADP	_	7 beasts	case
6	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 beasts	amod
7	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obl
8	as	as	ADP	_	10 necessities	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 necessities	nmod:poss
10	necessities	necessity	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 taken	obl
11	required	require	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 necessities	acl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 undertook	punct
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lion	det
14	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 undertook	nsubj
15	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 taken	conj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 distribute	mark
17	distribute	distribute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 undertook	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 prey	det
19	prey	prey	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 distribute	obj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 divided	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 divided	cc
22	for	for	ADP	_	24 purpose	case
23	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 purpose	det
24	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 divided	obl
25	divided	divide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 undertook	conj
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 divided	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 shares	case
28	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	29 shares	nummod
29	shares	share	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 divided	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 taken	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	take	past · perfect	Benefits = benefit			as many beasts; as Benefits's necessities	vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent as beast=Attribute
2	require	participle		Benefits's necessities not said here			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme
3	undertake	past	the Lion				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	distribute	to-infinitive	the Lion not said here	the prey			vn contribute-13.2-1 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prey=Theme
5	divide	past	the Lion not said here	prey	three shares	for this purpose	vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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