The Aesop for Children, The Animals and the Plague, sentence 25

"I remember," he said guiltily, "that one day as I was passing a field belonging to some priests, I was so tempted by the tender grass and my hunger, that I could not resist nibbling a bit of it.

Who acts: Many, tender grass, my · What happens: remember, say, pass, belong, tempt, not resist · To what, where: field, Many, bit · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Animals and the Plague. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Many, tender grass, my), 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	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 remember	nsubj
3	remember	remember	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 remember	ccomp
8	guiltily	guiltily	ADV	_	7 said	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	13 day	punct
11	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	13 day	det
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 day	nummod
13	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
14	as	as	SCONJ	_	17 passing	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 passing	nsubj
16	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 passing	aux
17	passing	pass	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 field	det
19	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 passing	obj
20	belonging	belong	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 passing	advcl
21	to	to	ADP	_	23 priests	case
22	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	23 priests	det
23	priests	priest	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 belonging	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 tempted	punct
25	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 tempted	nsubj:pass
26	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	28 tempted	aux:pass
27	so	so	ADV	_	28 tempted	advmod
28	tempted	tempt	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 said	parataxis
29	by	by	ADP	_	32 grass	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 grass	det
31	tender	tender	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grass	compound
32	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 tempted	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 hunger	cc
34	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	35 hunger	nmod:poss
35	hunger	hunger	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 grass	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 resist	punct
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 resist	mark
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	41 resist	nsubj
39	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	41 resist	aux
40	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	41 resist	advmod
41	resist	resist	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tempted	conj
42	nibbling	nibble	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	41 resist	xcomp
43	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	44 bit	det
44	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 nibbling	obj
45	of	of	ADP	_	46 it	case
46	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 bit	nmod
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 remember	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	remember in a quote	present	Many				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	say speech: assert	past	Many		day	guiltily property	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	pass in a quote	past · progressive	Many	a field			vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme field=Trajectory
4	belong in a quote	gerund	Many not said here			to some priests	vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme
5	tempt in a quote	past · passive	the tender grass and my hunger	Many			vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient
6	not resist in a quote	could	Many				tree rules
7	nibble in a quote	gerund	Many not said here	a bit of Tiger			vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=Patient
8	hunger in a quote		my				nom hunger «state 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: «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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