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The Aesop for Children, The Spendthrift and the Swallow, sentence 1

A young fellow, who was very popular among his boon companions as a good spender, quickly wasted his fortune trying to live up to his reputation.

Who acts: young fellow, fellow · What happens: be, companion, waste, try, live up, repute · To what, where: fortune

This is a sentence of «The Aesop for Children» by Aesop, The Spendthrift and the Swallow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young fellow, fellow), 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

detamodnsubjpunctnsubjcopadvmodconjcasenmod:possoblcasedetamodoblpunctadvmodparataxisnmod:possobjadvclmarkxcompcompound:prtcasenmod:possoblpunctrootADETyoungADJfellowNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXveryADVpopularADJamongADPhisPRONboonNOUNcompanionsVERBasADPaDETgoodADJspenderNOUN,PUNCTquicklyADVwastedVERBhisPRONfortuneNOUNtryingVERBtoPARTliveVERBupADPtoADPhisPRONreputationNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art3 fellowdet
2youngyoungADJDegree=Pos3 fellowamod
3fellowfellowNOUNNumber=Sing12 companionsnsubj
4,,PUNCT_8 popularpunct
5whowhoPRONPronType=Rel8 popularnsubj
6wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 popularcop
7veryveryADV_8 popularadvmod
8popularpopularADJDegree=Pos3 fellowconj
9amongamongADP_11 booncase
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 boonnmod:poss
11boonboonNOUNNumber=Sing8 popularobl
12companionscompanionVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
13asasADP_16 spendercase
14aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art16 spenderdet
15goodgoodADJDegree=Pos16 spenderamod
16spenderspenderNOUNNumber=Sing12 companionsobl
17,,PUNCT_19 wastedpunct
18quicklyquicklyADV_19 wastedadvmod
19wastedwasteVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin12 companionsparataxis
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 fortunenmod:poss
21fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing19 wastedobj
22tryingtryVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part19 wastedadvcl
23totoPART_24 livemark
24liveliveVERBVerbForm=Inf22 tryingxcomp
25upupADP_24 livecompound:prt
26totoADP_28 reputationcase
27hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs28 reputationnmod:poss
28reputationreputationNOUNNumber=Sing24 liveobl
29..PUNCT_12 companionspunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispasta young fellowamong fellow's boon; popular propertytree rules
2companionpresenta young fellowas a good spendertree rules
3wastepastfellow's fortunequickly propertyvn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fortune=Patient
4trygerundvn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5live up not said to happento-infinitiveto fellow's reputationvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6reputefellownom reputation «state transitive»: 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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