Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 25

He pulled up his horse, and with great glee joined in the joke by saying, “What a marvel it is that hairs which are not mine should fly from me, when they have forsaken even the man on whose head they grew.”

Who acts: laugh, marvel, hairs · What happens: pull up, join, say, be, not be, forsake · To what, where: horse, hairs, man, head · 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 (laugh, marvel, hairs), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 pulled	nsubj
2	pulled	pull	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 pulled	compound:prt
4	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	5 horse	nmod:poss
5	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 pulled	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 joined	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 joined	cc
8	with	with	ADP	_	10 glee	case
9	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 glee	amod
10	glee	glee	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 joined	obl
11	joined	join	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 pulled	parataxis
12	in	in	ADP	_	14 joke	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 joke	det
14	joke	joke	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 joined	obl
15	by	by	SCONJ	_	16 saying	mark
16	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 joined	advcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 What	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	19 What	punct
19	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	16 saying	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 marvel	det
21	marvel	marvel	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 What	nsubj
22	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 hairs	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 hairs	cop
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	25 hairs	mark
25	hairs	hair	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 marvel	nmod
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 fly	nsubj
27	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 fly	cop
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	31 fly	advmod
29	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 fly	nsubj
30	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 fly	aux
31	fly	fly	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 hairs	acl:relcl
32	from	from	ADP	_	33 me	case
33	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 fly	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 forsaken	punct
35	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	38 forsaken	advmod
36	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 forsaken	nsubj
37	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 forsaken	aux
38	forsaken	forsake	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	31 fly	parataxis
39	even	even	ADV	_	41 man	advmod
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 man	det
41	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 forsaken	obj
42	on	on	ADP	_	44 head	case
43	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	44 head	nmod:poss
44	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 man	nmod
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 grew	nsubj
46	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	44 head	acl:relcl
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	25 hairs	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	25 hairs	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pull up	past	laugh	laugh's horse			vn push-12-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent horse=Result
2	join	participle				with great glee; in the joke	vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent PP.theme»: agent=Agent with glee=Co-Agent in joke=Theme
3	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic
4	is a in a quote	present	marvel	hairs			tree rules
5	not is in a quote	should · present	hairs			from me; fly property	tree rules
6	forsake in a quote	present · perfect	hairs = hair	the man	the man's head		tree rules
7	grow in a quote	past	hairs = hair	the man's head not said here			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location head=Theme

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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