The Aesop for Children, The Two Pots, sentence 3

But the Earthen Pot excused himself, saying that it would be wiser for him to stay in the corner by the fire.

Who acts: Earthen Pot, world, him · What happens: excuse, say, be, stay · To what, where: himself, corner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Two Pots. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Earthen Pot, world, him), 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	But	but	CCONJ	_	5 excused	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Pot	det
3	Earthen	Earthen	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 Pot	compound
4	Pot	Pot	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 excused	nsubj
5	excused	excuse	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	5 excused	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 saying	punct
8	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 excused	advcl
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 wiser	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 wiser	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 wiser	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 wiser	cop
13	wiser	wise	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	8 saying	ccomp
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 stay	mark
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 stay	nsubj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 stay	mark
17	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 wiser	advcl
18	in	in	ADP	_	20 corner	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 corner	det
20	corner	corner	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stay	obl
21	by	by	ADP	_	23 fire	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 fire	det
23	fire	fire	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 stay	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 excused	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	excuse	past	the Earthen Pot	himself = he			vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Earthen Pot not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is	would	world			wise property	tree rules
4	stay	to-infinitive	him = he		the corner	by the fire	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in corner=Location

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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