Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 27
The other refused, saying that he felt it so very hard to leave a place to which he had become accustomed.
Who acts: other, One, safety · What happens: refuse, say, feel, leave, become, accustom · To what, where: safety, place · 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 (other, One, safety), 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 other | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 refused | nsubj |
| 3 | refused | refuse | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 saying | punct |
| 5 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 refused | advcl |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 felt | mark |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | nsubj |
| 8 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saying | ccomp |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 felt | obj |
| 10 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 hard | advmod |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 hard | advmod |
| 12 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 felt | advcl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 leave | mark |
| 14 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hard | xcomp |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 place | det |
| 16 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 leave | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 which | case |
| 18 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 become | obl |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 become | nsubj |
| 20 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 become | aux |
| 21 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 16 place | acl:relcl |
| 22 | accustomed | accustom | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 become | xcomp |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 refused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | refuse | past | the other | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the other not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | One | safety | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 4 | leave | to-infinitive | safety not said here | a place | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme | ||||
| 5 | become | past · perfect | One | to a place | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | accustom | participle | One not said here | 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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