Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 3

Jupiter, delighted with the offering of honey, promised to give whatever she should ask.

Who acts: Jupiter · What happens: promise, give, ask, offer · To what, where: whatever, honey

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 (Jupiter), 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	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 promised	nsubj
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 delighted	punct
3	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Jupiter	amod
4	with	with	ADP	_	6 offering	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 offering	det
6	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 delighted	obl
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 honey	case
8	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 offering	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Jupiter	punct
10	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	PART	_	12 give	mark
12	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 promised	xcomp
13	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 ask	obj
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 ask	nsubj
15	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	16 ask	aux
16	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 give	ccomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	Jupiter		vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	give not said to happen	to-infinitive	Jupiter not said here		tree rules
3	ask speech: ask	should	Jupiter	whatever	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent whatever=Recipient
4	offer			honey	nom offering «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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