Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 49

“True,” replied the Crane; “but I soar to the heights of heaven and lift up my voice to the stars, while you walk below, like a cock, among the birds of the dunghill.”

Who acts: Crane, you · What happens: reply, soar, lift up, walk · To what, where: heights, voice, stars · 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 (Crane, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
2	True	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 replied	advcl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 True	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
5	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Crane	det
7	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 replied	obj
8	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 soar	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 soar	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 soar	cc
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 soar	nsubj
12	soar	soar	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 replied	parataxis
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 heights	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 heights	det
15	heights	height	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 soar	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 heaven	case
17	heaven	heaven	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 heights	nmod
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 lift	cc
19	lift	lift	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 soar	conj
20	up	up	ADP	_	19 lift	compound:prt
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 voice	nmod:poss
22	voice	voice	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lift	obj
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 stars	case
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 stars	det
25	stars	star	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lift	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 walk	punct
27	while	while	SCONJ	_	29 walk	mark
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 walk	nsubj
29	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 soar	conj
30	below	below	ADV	_	29 walk	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 cock	punct
32	like	like	ADP	_	34 cock	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 cock	det
34	cock	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 walk	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 birds	punct
36	among	among	ADP	_	38 birds	case
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 birds	det
38	birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 walk	obl
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 dunghill	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 dunghill	det
41	dunghill	dunghill	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 birds	nmod
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	5 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Crane				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	soar in a quote	present	the Crane = crane		the heights of heaven		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme to height=Trajectory
3	lift up in a quote	present	the Crane = crane not said here	my voice	the stars		vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent voice=Theme to star=Destination
4	walk in a quote	present	you			like a cock; among the birds of the dunghill; below property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme among bird=Trajectory

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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