Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 4

She therefore besought him, saying, “Give me, I pray thee, a sting, that if any mortal shall approach to take my honey, I may kill him.”

Who acts: Jupiter, mortal · What happens: beseech, say, give, pray, approach, take · To what, where: Olympus, Jupiter, thee, honey · Speech: someone speaks here

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, mortal), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 besought	nsubj
2	therefore	therefore	ADV	_	3 besought	advmod
3	besought	beseech	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 besought	obj
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 saying	punct
6	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 besought	advcl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Give	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 Give	punct
9	Give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 saying	ccomp
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 Give	iobj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 pray	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 pray	nsubj
13	pray	pray	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 Give	conj
14	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	13 pray	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 sting	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 sting	det
17	sting	sting	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Give	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 approach	punct
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 approach	mark
20	if	if	SCONJ	_	24 approach	mark
21	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	22 mortal	det
22	mortal	mortal	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 approach	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 approach	aux
24	approach	approach	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 Give	conj
25	to	to	PART	_	26 take	mark
26	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 approach	xcomp
27	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 honey	nmod:poss
28	honey	honey	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 take	obj
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 kill	nsubj
31	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 kill	aux
32	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 besought	parataxis
33	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 kill	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	32 kill	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	beseech	past	Jupiter	Olympus		therefore property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	gerund	Jupiter not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	give in a quote	infinitive			Jupiter		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme
4	pray in a quote	present	Jupiter	thee			tree rules
5	approach a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	shall	any mortal				tree rules
6	take in a quote	to-infinitive	any mortal not said here	my honey			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent honey=Theme
7	kill in a quote	may	Jupiter	Olympus			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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