Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 90

Upon arriving at home they prepared to kill the Cock, who thus pleaded for his life: “Pray spare me; I am very serviceable to men.

Who acts: I, Thieves, Cock · What happens: arrive, prepare, kill, plead, pray, spare · To what, where: home, Cock · 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 (I, Thieves, Cock), 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	Upon	upon	SCONJ	_	2 arriving	mark
2	arriving	arrive	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	27 serviceable	advcl
3	at	at	ADP	_	4 home	case
4	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 arriving	obl
5	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 prepared	nsubj
6	prepared	prepare	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 home	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 kill	mark
8	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 prepared	xcomp
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Cock	det
10	Cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 kill	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 pleaded	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 pleaded	nsubj
13	thus	thus	ADV	_	14 pleaded	advmod
14	pleaded	plead	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 Cock	acl:relcl
15	for	for	ADP	_	17 life	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 life	nmod:poss
17	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 pleaded	obl
18	:	:	PUNCT	_	20 Pray	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	20 Pray	punct
20	Pray	pray	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 arriving	advcl
21	spare	spare	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 Pray	xcomp
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 spare	obj
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	2 arriving	punct
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 serviceable	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 serviceable	cop
26	very	very	ADV	_	27 serviceable	advmod
27	serviceable	serviceable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 men	case
29	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 serviceable	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	27 serviceable	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	gerund	I not said here		home		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	prepare	past	Thieves = thief	home not said here			vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent home=Theme clause=Attribute
3	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive	Thieves = thief not said here	the Cock			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cock=Theme
4	plead speech: request	past	the Cock			for care's life; thus property	tree rules
5	pray in a quote	infinitive	the Cock = cock not said here				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
6	spare in a quote	infinitive	the Cock = cock not said here	the Cock = cock			vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent i=Asset
7	is in a quote	present	the Cock = cock			to men; serviceable property	tree rules

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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