The Aesop for Children, The Miser, sentence 4
When the Miser discovered his loss, he was overcome with grief and despair.
Who acts: Miser · What happens: discover, overcome · To what, where: loss, Miser
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miser. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Miser), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 discovered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Miser | det |
| 3 | Miser | Miser | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 discovered | nsubj |
| 4 | discovered | discover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 overcome | advcl |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 loss | nmod:poss |
| 6 | loss | loss | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 discovered | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 discovered | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 overcome | nsubj |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 overcome | aux:pass |
| 10 | overcome | overcome | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 grief | case |
| 12 | grief | grief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 overcome | obl |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 despair | cc |
| 14 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 grief | conj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 overcome | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | discover | past | the Miser | Miser's loss | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loss=Topic | ||||
| 2 | overcome | past · passive | Miser | with grief and despair | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
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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