The Aesop for Children, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass, sentence 24
By trying to please everybody, he had pleased nobody, and lost his Ass besides.
Who acts: way, Ass · What happens: try, please, have, lose, beside · To what, where: everybody, nobody
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Miller, His Son, and the Ass. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (way, Ass), 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 | By | by | SCONJ | _ | 2 trying | mark |
| 2 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 had | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 please | mark |
| 4 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 trying | xcomp |
| 5 | everybody | everybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 4 please | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 trying | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | pleased | pleased | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 nobody | amod |
| 10 | nobody | nobody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 8 had | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 lost | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 lost | cc |
| 13 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Ass | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 besides | nsubj |
| 16 | besides | beside | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 lost | ccomp |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | way not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | please not said to happen | to-infinitive | way not said here | everybody | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus everybody=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | have | past | way | nobody | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nobody=Patient | ||||
| 4 | lose | past | way not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | beside | present | way's Ass | 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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