Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 5, sentence 67

The Dolphin, though quite willing to give him assistance, was unable to do so, as he could not by any means reach the land.

Who acts: Dolphin · What happens: give, be, do, not mean, reach · To what, where: assistance, Dolphin, land · Speech: someone speaks here

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	13 unable	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 willing	punct
4	though	though	ADV	_	6 willing	advmod
5	quite	quite	ADV	_	6 willing	advmod
6	willing	willing	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 Dolphin	conj
7	to	to	PART	_	8 give	mark
8	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 willing	xcomp
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 give	iobj
10	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 give	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Dolphin	punct
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 unable	cop
13	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 do	mark
15	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 unable	xcomp
16	so	so	ADV	_	15 do	advmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 means	punct
18	as	as	SCONJ	_	20 could	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 could	nsubj
20	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 means	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	24 means	advmod
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 any	case
23	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	24 means	obl
24	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 unable	parataxis
25	reach	reach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 means	ccomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 land	det
27	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 reach	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 unable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	to-infinitive	the Dolphin not said here	assistance	Dolphin		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient assistance=Theme
2	is	past	the Dolphin			unable property	tree rules
3	do	to-infinitive	the Dolphin not said here				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	not mean	could				by any	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	reach	infinitive		the land			vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent land=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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