Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 133

He fed the one for his table and kept the other for the sake of its song.

Who acts: Goose, sake · What happens: feed, keep, sing · To what, where: one, other

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 (Goose, sake), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 fed	nsubj
2	fed	feed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 one	det
4	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 fed	obj
5	for	for	ADP	_	7 table	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 table	nmod:poss
7	table	table	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 one	nmod
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 kept	cc
9	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 fed	conj
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 other	det
11	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 kept	obj
12	for	for	ADP	_	14 sake	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 sake	det
14	sake	sake	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 kept	obl
15	of	of	ADP	_	17 song	case
16	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 song	nmod:poss
17	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 sake	nmod
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 fed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	feed	past	Goose	the one	for Goose's table	vn feeding-39.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Recipient
2	keep	past	Goose not said here	the other	for the sake of sake's song	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent other=Theme
3	sing		sake			nom song «communication intransitive»: poss=agent

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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