Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 8, sentence 59

Some Frogs frequenting the pool heard his lamentation, and said, “What would you do if you had to live here always as we do, when you make such a fuss about a mere fall into the water?”

Who acts: Frogs, you, we, Ass · What happens: frequent, hear, say, do, have, live · To what, where: pool, lamentation, fuss, water · 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 (Frogs, you, we, Ass), 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 Frogs	det
2	Frogs	frog	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 heard	nsubj
3	frequenting	frequent	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Frogs	acl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 pool	det
5	pool	pool	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 frequenting	obj
6	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 lamentation	nmod:poss
8	lamentation	lamentation	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 heard	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 said	cc
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 heard	parataxis
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
14	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	17 do	obj
15	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 do	aux
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 do	nsubj
17	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 said	ccomp
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	20 had	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	20 had	nsubj
20	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 do	advcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 live	mark
22	live	live	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 had	xcomp
23	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 live	advmod
24	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	22 live	advmod
25	as	as	SCONJ	_	27 do	mark
26	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 do	nsubj
27	do	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 always	advcl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 make	punct
29	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 make	advmod
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 make	nsubj
31	make	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 do	conj
32	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	34 fuss	det:predet
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 fuss	det
34	fuss	fuss	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obj
35	about	about	ADP	_	38 fall	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	38 fall	det
37	mere	mere	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 fall	amod
38	fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 fuss	nmod
39	into	into	ADP	_	41 water	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	41 water	det
41	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 make	obl
42	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 do	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 heard	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	frequent	gerund	some Frogs not said here	the pool			tree rules
2	hear	past	some Frogs	Ass's lamentation			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer lamentation=Stimulus
3	say speech: ask	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	do in a quote	would	you				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
5	have a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past	you				tree rules
6	live in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here		here	always property	vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	do in a quote	present	we				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	make in a quote	present	you	such fuss	the water	about a mere fall	vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP.material PP.product»: agent=Agent fuss=Material into water=Product
9	lament		Ass				nom lamentation «communication transitive»: poss=agent

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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