Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 129

The end of life was reserved for the Dog, wherefore the old man is often snappish, irritable, hard to please, and selfish, tolerant only of his own household, but averse to strangers and to all who do not administer to his comfort or to his necessities.

Who acts: Dog, old man, man · What happens: reserve, be, please, not administer, comfort · To what, where: end, all

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 (Dog, old man, man), 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	2 end	det
2	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reserved	nsubj:pass
3	of	of	ADP	_	4 life	case
4	life	life	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 end	nmod
5	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 reserved	aux:pass
6	reserved	reserve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	for	for	ADP	_	9 Dog	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Dog	det
9	Dog	dog	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 reserved	obl:agent
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 snappish	punct
11	wherefore	wherefore	ADV	PronType=Int	17 snappish	advmod
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 man	det
13	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 man	amod
14	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 snappish	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 snappish	cop
16	often	often	ADV	_	17 snappish	advmod
17	snappish	snappish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Dog	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 irritable	punct
19	irritable	irritable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 snappish	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 hard	punct
21	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 snappish	conj
22	to	to	PART	_	23 please	mark
23	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 hard	xcomp
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 selfish	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 selfish	cc
26	selfish	selfish	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 reserved	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 household	punct
28	tolerant	tolerant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 household	amod
29	only	only	ADV	_	33 household	advmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	33 household	case
31	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	33 household	nmod:poss
32	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 household	amod
33	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 selfish	nmod
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 averse	punct
35	but	but	CCONJ	_	36 averse	cc
36	averse	averse	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 household	conj
37	to	to	ADP	_	38 strangers	case
38	strangers	stranger	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 averse	obl
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 administer	cc
40	to	to	ADP	_	41 all	case
41	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	45 administer	obl
42	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	45 administer	nsubj
43	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	45 administer	aux
44	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	45 administer	advmod
45	administer	administer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	36 averse	conj
46	to	to	ADP	_	48 comfort	case
47	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 comfort	nmod:poss
48	comfort	comfort	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 administer	obl
49	or	or	CCONJ	_	52 necessities	cc
50	to	to	ADP	_	52 necessities	case
51	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	52 necessities	nmod:poss
52	necessities	necessity	NOUN	Number=Plur	48 comfort	conj
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 reserved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reserve	past · passive	the Dog	the end of life		selfish of man's tolerant own household obl	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme
2	is	present	the old man			often, snappish, wherefore property	tree rules
3	be		the old man not said here				tree rules
4	be		the old man not said here				tree rules
5	please	to-infinitive	the old man not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
6	not administer	present · do-support			all	to man's comfort or man's necessities	vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to all=Recipient
7	comfort		man				nom comfort «state 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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