Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 55

The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.

Who acts: foolish pair · What happens: hope, become, deprive, assure · To what, where: Hen

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 (foolish pair), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 pair	det
2	foolish	foolish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 pair	amod
3	pair	pair	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deprived	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 hoping	punct
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	6 hoping	advmod
6	hoping	hope	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 pair	acl:relcl
7	to	to	PART	_	8 become	mark
8	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 hoping	xcomp
9	rich	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 become	xcomp
10	all	all	ADV	_	12 once	advmod
11	at	at	ADP	_	12 once	case
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	8 become	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 pair	punct
14	deprived	deprive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
15	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 deprived	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 gain	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 gain	det
18	gain	gain	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 deprived	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 which	case
20	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	23 assured	obl
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 assured	nsubj:pass
22	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 assured	aux:pass
23	assured	assure	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	18 gain	acl:relcl
24	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 assured	obl:unmarked
25	by	by	ADP	_	26 day	case
26	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 assured	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 deprived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	hope	gerund	the foolish pair not said here			thus property	vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
2	become not said to happen	to-infinitive	the foolish pair not said here			once, rich property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
3	deprive	past	the foolish pair	Hen		of the gain	vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent themselves=Source of gain=Theme
4	assure	past · passive		Hen	day	of the gain	vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: subject=Recipient of which=Topic

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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