Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 104
“Then,” said the Ass, “as long as I carry the panniers, what matters it to me whom I serve?”
Who acts: Ass · What happens: say, carry, matter, serve · To what, where: panniers, conqueror, Ass · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 8. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Then | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ass | det |
| 7 | Ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 long | punct |
| 10 | as | as | ADV | _ | 11 long | advmod |
| 11 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 said | advmod |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 carry | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 carry | nsubj |
| 14 | carry | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 long | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 panniers | det |
| 16 | panniers | pannier | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 carry | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 matters | punct |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 19 matters | nsubj |
| 19 | matters | matter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 matters | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 me | case |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 matters | obl |
| 23 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 serve | obj |
| 24 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 serve | nsubj |
| 25 | serve | serve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 matters | conj |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 19 matters | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 matters | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the Ass | then | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | carry in a quote | present | the Ass = ass | the panniers | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pannier=Theme | ||||
| 3 | matter in a quote | present | conqueror | the Ass = ass | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | serve in a quote | present | the Ass = ass | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute |
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: «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Project Gutenberg book 21 (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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