Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 18
On the next day, being driven a long journey, and feeling very wearied, he exclaimed in a disconsolate tone: “I must have made a mistake; my father, after all, could have been only an ass.”
Who acts: Mule, disconsolate tone · What happens: drive, feel, weary, exclaim, make, be · To what, where: long journey, disconsolate tone, Mule, ass · 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 (Mule, disconsolate tone), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 4 day | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 day | det |
| 3 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 day | amod |
| 4 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driven | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 day | punct |
| 6 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 driven | aux:pass |
| 7 | driven | drive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 journey | det |
| 9 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 journey | amod |
| 10 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driven | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 exclaimed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 exclaimed | cc |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 exclaimed | advcl |
| 14 | very | very | ADV | _ | 15 wearied | advmod |
| 15 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 feeling | xcomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feeling | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 exclaimed | nsubj |
| 18 | exclaimed | exclaim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 driven | conj |
| 19 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 tone | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 tone | det |
| 21 | disconsolate | disconsolate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tone | compound |
| 22 | tone | tone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 exclaimed | obl |
| 23 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 made | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 made | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 made | aux |
| 27 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 made | aux |
| 28 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 tone | acl:relcl |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 mistake | det |
| 30 | mistake | mistake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 made | obj |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 33 father | punct |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 father | nmod:poss |
| 33 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 driven | parataxis |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 ass | punct |
| 35 | after | after | ADP | _ | 36 all | case |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 43 ass | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 all | punct |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 43 ass | aux |
| 39 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 43 ass | aux |
| 40 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 43 ass | cop |
| 41 | only | only | ADV | _ | 43 ass | advmod |
| 42 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 43 ass | det |
| 43 | ass | ass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 father | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 father | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 driven | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drive | gerund · passive | a long journey | day | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: journey=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 2 | feel | gerund | Mule not said here | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | weary | participle | Mule not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | exclaim speech: express | past | Mule | a disconsolate tone | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | must · perfect · passive | a disconsolate tone not said here | Mule | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: subject=Beneficiary mistake=Product | ||||
| 6 | is a in a quote | could · perfect | a ass | after all | tree rules |
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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