Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 105
The bird entreated earnestly for his life: “What would you do without me when next you spread your nets?
Who acts: bird, you · What happens: entreat, do, spread · To what, where: nets
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 6. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bird, you), 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 bird | det |
| 2 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entreated | nsubj |
| 3 | entreated | entreat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 3 entreated | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 life | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 entreated | obl |
| 8 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 10 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 13 do | obj |
| 11 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 do | nsubj |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 entreated | conj |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 do | obl |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 do | advmod |
| 17 | next | next | ADP | _ | 19 spread | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 spread | nsubj |
| 19 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | advcl |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 nets | nmod:poss |
| 21 | nets | net | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spread | obj |
| 22 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 entreated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | entreat | past | the bird | for bird's life; earnestly property | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | would | you | without the Lion = lion | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | spread in a quote | present | you | your nets | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location net=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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