Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 134
“Save yourself the trouble,” said the Bull; “I knew that way long before you were born.”
Who acts: Bull · What happens: save, say, know, bear · To what, where: trouble, yourself, way, you · 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 (Bull), 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 | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 2 | Save | save | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 3 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 Save | iobj |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 trouble | det |
| 5 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Save | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Save | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Bull | det |
| 10 | Bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 knew | punct |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 knew | nsubj |
| 14 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 way | det |
| 16 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 knew | obj |
| 17 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 way | advmod |
| 18 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 born | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 born | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 born | aux:pass |
| 21 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 knew | advcl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | save in a quote | infinitive | the trouble | yourself | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary trouble=Theme | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the Bull | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | past | the Bull = bull | that way | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer way=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | bear in a quote | past · passive | you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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