--- title: He called to her and earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest s… — Three hundred Aesop’s fables · tree and pragmatics description: He called to her and earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest she fall by some mishap; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender. Who acts: Goat, she, meadows, herbage. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goat, she, meadows, herbage), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg21:13:4 # text = He called to her and earnestly begged her to come lower down, lest she fall by some mishap; and he added that the meadows lay where he was standing, and that the herbage was most tender. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 called call VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 obl _ _ 5 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 6 earnestly earnestly ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ _ 7 begged beg VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 8 her she PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 obj _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 come come VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 xcomp _ _ 11 lower low ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 10 advmod _ _ 12 down down ADP RP _ 10 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 lest lest SCONJ IN _ 16 mark _ _ 15 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 16 fall fall VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 10 conj _ _ 17 by by ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 19 det _ _ 19 mishap mishap NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 20 ; ; PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 21 and and CCONJ CC _ 23 cc _ _ 22 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 added add VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 24 that that SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 meadows meadow NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nsubj _ _ 27 lay lie VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 23 advcl _ _ 28 where where ADV WRB PronType=Rel 31 advmod _ _ 29 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 31 nsubj _ _ 30 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 31 aux _ _ 31 standing stand VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 27 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 33 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 34 that that SCONJ IN _ 39 mark _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 herbage herbage NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nsubj _ _ 37 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 39 cop _ _ 38 most most ADJ JJS Degree=Sup 39 amod _ _ 39 tender tender NOUN NN Number=Sing 31 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 40 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **call** | past | Goat | | her *= she* | | | | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to she=Recipient | | 2 | **beg** *speech: request* | past | Goat *not said here* | | her *= she* | | | earnestly *property* | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | | 3 | **come down** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Goat *not said here* | | | | | low *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **fall** | infinitive | she | | | | | by some mishap | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mishap=Location | | 5 | **add** *speech: assert* | past | Goat | | | | | | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **lie** | past | the meadows | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **stand** | past · progressive | Goat | | | | | | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 8 | **is a** | past | the herbage | most tender | | | | | 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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/5/) - ↑ back to [Aesop’s Fables, part 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg21/13/)