Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 6, sentence 74

For this purpose he assumed the character of a man and visited in this disguise a Sculptor’s studio having looked at various statues, he demanded the price of two figures of Jupiter and Juno.

Who acts: Shadow, studio · What happens: assume, visit, have, look, demand, figure · To what, where: character, disguise, price, Jupiter

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 (Shadow, studio), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 purpose	case
2	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 purpose	det
3	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assumed	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 assumed	nsubj
5	assumed	assume	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 character	det
7	character	character	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 assumed	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	10 man	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 man	det
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 character	nmod
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 visited	cc
12	visited	visit	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	5 assumed	conj
13	in	in	ADP	_	15 disguise	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 disguise	det
15	disguise	disguise	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 visited	obl
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 Sculptor	det
17	Sculptor	Sculptor	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 studio	nmod:poss
18	’s	's	PART	_	17 Sculptor	case
19	studio	studio	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 disguise	conj
20	having	have	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 studio	acl
21	looked	look	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 having	xcomp
22	at	at	ADP	_	24 statues	case
23	various	various	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 statues	amod
24	statues	statue	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 looked	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 demanded	punct
26	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 demanded	nsubj
27	demanded	demand	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 assumed	conj
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 price	det
29	price	price	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 demanded	obj
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 figures	case
31	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	32 figures	nummod
32	figures	figure	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 price	nmod
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Jupiter	case
34	Jupiter	Jupiter	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 figures	nmod
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	36 Juno	cc
36	Juno	Juno	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Jupiter	conj
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 assumed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	assume	past	Shadow	the character of a man		for this purpose	vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent character=Theme
2	visit	participle	Shadow not said here		this disguise and a Sculptor's studio		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	have	gerund	a Sculptor's studio not said here				tree rules
4	look	participle	a Sculptor's studio not said here			at various statues	vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at statue=Theme
5	demand speech: request	past	Shadow	the price of two figures of Jupiter and Juno			vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme price=Precondition
6	figure			Jupiter and Juno			nom figure «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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