Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 3

When its head was knocked off, out came a stream of gold, which the Carpenter quickly picked up and said, “Well, I think thou art altogether contradictory and unreasonable; for when I paid you honour, I reaped no benefits: but now that I maltreat you I am loaded with an abundance of riches.”

Who acts: Carpenter, you · What happens: knock off, come, pick up, say, think, pay · To what, where: head, stream, benefits, you, Carpenter · 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 (Carpenter, you), 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	When	when	SCONJ	_	5 knocked	mark
2	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 head	nmod:poss
3	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 knocked	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knocked	aux:pass
5	knocked	knock	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	44 reaped	advcl
6	off	off	ADP	_	5 knocked	compound:prt
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 came	punct
8	out	out	ADV	_	9 came	advmod
9	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 knocked	parataxis
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 stream	det
11	stream	stream	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 came	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 gold	case
13	gold	gold	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 stream	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 picked	punct
15	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 picked	obj
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Carpenter	det
17	Carpenter	Carpenter	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 picked	nsubj
18	quickly	quickly	ADV	_	19 picked	advmod
19	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 stream	parataxis
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 picked	compound:prt
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 said	cc
22	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 picked	conj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 think	punct
24	“	"	PUNCT	_	28 think	punct
25	Well	well	INTJ	_	28 think	discourse
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 Well	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 think	nsubj
28	think	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 said	ccomp
29	thou	thou	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	30 art	nsubj
30	art	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 think	ccomp
31	altogether	altogether	ADP	_	32 contradictory	case
32	contradictory	contradictory	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 art	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 unreasonable	cc
34	unreasonable	unreasonable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 contradictory	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 paid	punct
36	for	for	SCONJ	_	39 paid	mark
37	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	39 paid	advmod
38	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 paid	nsubj
39	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 came	conj
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	41 honour	nsubj
41	honour	honour	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 paid	ccomp
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 knocked	punct
43	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	44 reaped	nsubj
44	reaped	reap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
45	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	46 benefits	det
46	benefits	benefit	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 reaped	obj
47	:	:	PUNCT	_	52 maltreat	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	52 maltreat	cc
49	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	52 maltreat	advmod
50	that	that	SCONJ	_	52 maltreat	mark
51	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	52 maltreat	nsubj
52	maltreat	maltreat	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	44 reaped	conj
53	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	52 maltreat	obj
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	56 loaded	nsubj
55	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	56 loaded	aux:pass
56	loaded	load	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	52 maltreat	advcl
57	with	with	ADP	_	59 abundance	case
58	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	59 abundance	det
59	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 loaded	obl
60	of	of	ADP	_	61 riches	case
61	riches	rich	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 abundance	nmod
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	52 maltreat	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	52 maltreat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	knock off	past · passive		image's head			vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
2	come	past		a stream of gold		out property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location stream=Theme
3	pick up	past	the Carpenter	a stream of gold		quickly property	vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Topic
4	say speech: assert	past	the Carpenter not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	think speech: other in a quote	present	the Carpenter = carpenter				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pay in a quote	past	the Carpenter = carpenter				tree rules
7	honour in a quote	present	you				tree rules
8	reap in a quote	past	the Carpenter = carpenter	no benefits			vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent benefit=Theme
9	maltreat in a quote	infinitive	the Carpenter = carpenter	you	now		tree rules
10	load in a quote	present · passive		the Carpenter = carpenter		with a abundance of riches	vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: subject=Destination with abundance=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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