The Aesop for Children, The Fox and the Grapes, sentence 9
Here I am wearing myself out to get a bunch of sour grapes that are not worth gaping for."
Who acts: I, sour grapes · What happens: be, wear out, get, not be, gape · To what, where: myself, bunch
This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Fox and the Grapes. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, sour grapes), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | root | root |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Here | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Here | cop |
| 4 | wearing | wear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Here | advcl |
| 5 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 wearing | obj |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 wearing | compound:prt |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wearing | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 bunch | det |
| 10 | bunch | bunch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 get | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 grapes | case |
| 12 | sour | sour | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grapes | amod |
| 13 | grapes | grape | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 bunch | nmod |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 worth | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 worth | cop |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 worth | advmod |
| 17 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 grapes | acl:relcl |
| 18 | gaping | gape | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 worth | xcomp |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 gaping | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
| 21 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Here | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | wear out | gerund | I not said here | myself | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent myself=Source | ||||
| 3 | get | to-infinitive | I not said here | a bunch of sour grapes | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bunch=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | not is | present | sour grapes | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | gape | gerund | sour grapes not said here | vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=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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