Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 67

AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master.

Who acts: AN ASS, herb seller, Shadow · What happens: belong, give, make, release, provide, service · To what, where: little food, Shadow, petition, Jupiter, present service

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 (AN ASS, herb seller, Shadow), 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	AN	an	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 ASS	amod
2	ASS	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 belonging	punct
4	belonging	belong	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 ASS	acl
5	to	to	ADP	_	9 seller	case
6	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 seller	det
7	herb	herb	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 seller	compound
8	-	-	PUNCT	_	7 herb	punct
9	seller	seller	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 belonging	obl
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 seller	acl:relcl
12	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 gave	iobj
13	too	too	ADV	_	14 little	advmod
14	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 food	amod
15	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 work	cc
17	too	too	ADV	_	18 much	advmod
18	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 work	amod
19	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 food	conj
20	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 petition	det
22	petition	petition	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 made	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	24 Jupiter	case
24	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 made	obl
25	to	to	PART	_	27 released	mark
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 released	aux:pass
27	released	release	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 made	advcl
28	from	from	ADP	_	31 service	case
29	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 service	nmod:poss
30	present	present	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 service	amod
31	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 released	obl
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 provided	cc
33	provided	provide	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 released	conj
34	with	with	ADP	_	36 master	case
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	36 master	det
36	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 provided	obl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	20 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	belong	gerund	AN ASS not said here				to a herb seller	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
2	give	past	a herb seller	little food and much work	Shadow			vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient food=Theme
3	make	past	AN ASS	a petition	Jupiter			vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset petition=Product
4	release	to-infinitive · passive	AN ASS not said here			Shadow's present service		vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»
5	provide	participle	AN ASS not said here				with another master	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with master=Theme
6	service		Shadow					nom service «act transitive»: 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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