Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 118
After a short time she returned, and when he inquired how she had got on and how the servants had treated her, she replied, “The herdsmen and shepherds cast on me looks of aversion.”
Who acts: Wife, man, herdsmen · What happens: return, inquire, get on, treat, reply, cast · To what, where: short time, servants, herdsmen · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wife, man, herdsmen), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 3 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 time | amod |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 replied | obl |
| 5 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 returned | nsubj |
| 6 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 time | acl:relcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 inquired | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 inquired | cc |
| 9 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 11 inquired | advmod |
| 10 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 inquired | nsubj |
| 11 | inquired | inquire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 returned | conj |
| 12 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 got | advmod |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 got | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 got | aux |
| 15 | got | get | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 11 inquired | advcl |
| 16 | on | on | ADV | _ | 15 got | advmod |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 treated | cc |
| 18 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 treated | advmod |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 servants | det |
| 20 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 treated | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 treated | aux |
| 22 | treated | treat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 got | conj |
| 23 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 treated | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 time | punct |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 replied | nsubj |
| 26 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 looks | punct |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 looks | punct |
| 29 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 herdsmen | det |
| 30 | herdsmen | herdsman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 looks | nsubj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 shepherds | cc |
| 32 | shepherds | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 herdsmen | conj |
| 33 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 30 herdsmen | acl |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 35 me | case |
| 35 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 cast | obl |
| 36 | looks | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 replied | ccomp |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 aversion | case |
| 38 | aversion | aversion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 looks | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 36 looks | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 36 looks | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | Wife | a short time not said here | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent time=Theme | ||||
| 2 | inquire speech: other | past | man | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get on | past · perfect | Wife | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | treat | past · perfect · passive | the servants | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | reply speech: assert | past | Wife | time | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 6 | cast in a quote | participle | the herdsmen and shepherds not said here | on Wife | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent on i=Destination | ||||
| 7 | look in a quote | present | the herdsmen and shepherds | of aversion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent of aversion=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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