Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 80

The Dog thus invited went at the hour appointed, and seeing the preparations for so grand an entertainment, said in the joy of his heart, “How glad I am that I came!

Who acts: Dog, hour · What happens: invite, go, appoint, see, say, be · To what, where: preparations, joy, heart · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 7. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Dog, hour), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Dog	det
2	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 went	nsubj
3	thus	thus	ADV	_	4 invited	advmod
4	invited	invite	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Dog	acl:relcl
5	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	at	at	SCONJ	_	9 appointed	mark
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 hour	det
8	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 appointed	nsubj
9	appointed	appoint	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	advcl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 said	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 said	cc
12	seeing	see	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 said	advcl
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 preparations	det
14	preparations	preparation	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 seeing	obj
15	for	for	ADP	_	19 entertainment	case
16	so	so	ADV	_	17 grand	advmod
17	grand	grand	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 entertainment	amod
18	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 entertainment	det
19	entertainment	entertainment	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 seeing	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 seeing	punct
21	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 went	conj
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 joy	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 joy	det
24	joy	joy	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 said	obl
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 heart	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 heart	nmod:poss
27	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 joy	nmod
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 glad	punct
29	“	"	PUNCT	_	31 glad	punct
30	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	31 glad	advmod
31	glad	glad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 said	parataxis
32	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 glad	nsubj
33	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 glad	cop
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	36 came	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	36 came	nsubj
36	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 glad	advcl
37	!	!	PUNCT	_	5 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	invite	past	the Dog not said here			thus property	vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	go	past	the Dog				vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	appoint	past	the hour				vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	see	gerund		the preparations		for a grand entertainment	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer preparation=Stimulus
5	say speech: express	past	the Dog not said here		the joy of man's heart		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6	is in a quote	present	the Dog = dog			glad property	tree rules
7	come in a quote	past	the Dog = dog				vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	joy			man's heart			nom joy «feeling 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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