Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 65
The Dolphin gladly consented to this request.
Who acts: Dolphin · What happens: consent
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 (Dolphin), 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 Dolphin | det |
| 2 | Dolphin | Dolphin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 consented | nsubj |
| 3 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 4 consented | advmod |
| 4 | consented | consent | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 request | case |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 request | det |
| 7 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consented | obl |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consented | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consent | past | the Dolphin | to this request; gladly property | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to request=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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