Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 7, sentence 91

I wake them up in the night to their work.”

Who acts: I, Thieves · What happens: wake up, work · To what, where: Thieves

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), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 wake	nsubj
2	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 wake	obj
4	up	up	ADP	_	2 wake	compound:prt
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 night	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 night	det
7	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wake	obl
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 work	case
9	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 work	nmod:poss
10	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 wake	obl
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 wake	punct
12	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 wake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wake up	present	I	Thieves = thief			night	to Thieves's work	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient
2	work		Thieves = thief						nom work «act intransitive»: 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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