Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop, sentence 68
Thus, they neither got rich all at once, as they had hoped, nor enjoyed any longer the daily addition to their wealth.
Who acts: Fables · What happens: get, hope, enjoy · To what, where: daily addition
This is a sentence of «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», a book of tales from Project Gutenberg. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Fables), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Thus | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 got | nsubj |
| 4 | neither | neither | CCONJ | _ | 5 got | cc:preconj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 got | xcomp |
| 7 | all | all | ADV | _ | 9 once | advmod |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 once | case |
| 9 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 got | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 hoped | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 hoped | mark |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 hoped | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 hoped | aux |
| 14 | hoped | hope | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 got | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 enjoyed | punct |
| 16 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 enjoyed | cc |
| 17 | enjoyed | enjoy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 18 | any | any | ADV | _ | 19 longer | advmod |
| 19 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 17 enjoyed | advmod |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 addition | det |
| 21 | daily | daily | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 addition | amod |
| 22 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 enjoyed | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 wealth | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 wealth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | wealth | wealth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 addition | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get | past | Fables = fable | rich, thus property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hope | past · perfect | Fables = fable | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 3 | enjoy | past | Fables = fable not said here | the daily addition | to Fables's wealth; long property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer addition=Stimulus |
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: «Aesop's Fables; a new translation, by Aesop», Project Gutenberg book 11339 (public domain in the USA). Annotation: the tales treebank of Mova corpus 0.3 (mova-tales-silver-en.conllu), Apache-2.0 OR MIT: parsed by Mova, patched by a large language model as teacher under UD validation gates. Sentence gutenberg:pg11339:68.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Claude Opus (medium) patches; gates UD 2.18. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the tale's sample read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
See the release 0.3.
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