The Aesop for Children, The Ass and the Lap Dog, sentence 13
There they left him to mourn the foolishness that had brought him nothing but a sound beating.
Who acts: servants · What happens: leave, mourn, bring · To what, where: Master, foolishness
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Ass and the Lap Dog. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (servants), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 left | expl |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | nsubj |
| 3 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 left | obj |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 mourn | mark |
| 6 | mourn | mourn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 left | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 foolishness | det |
| 8 | foolishness | foolishness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mourn | obj |
| 9 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 brought | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 brought | aux |
| 11 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 foolishness | acl:relcl |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 brought | obj |
| 13 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 11 brought | obj |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 beating | cc |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 beating | det |
| 16 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 beating | compound |
| 17 | beating | beating | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 nothing | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | servants = servant | Master | there | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 2 | mourn | to-infinitive | servants = servant not said here | the foolishness | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foolishness=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | bring | past · perfect · passive | the foolishness | 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: «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 19994 (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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