Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 49

I know not, sir, when I got this habit of yawning, nor whether these attacks of howling were inflicted on me as a judgment for my crimes, or for any other cause; but this I do know, that when I yawn for the third time, I actually turn into a wolf and attack men.”

Who acts: I, this, my · What happens: not know, get, inflict, know, yawn, turn · To what, where: habit, attacks, that, wolf, howling · 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 (I, this, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 know	nsubj
2	know	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	2 know	advmod
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 sir	punct
5	sir	sir	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 know	vocative
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 got	punct
7	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	9 got	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 got	nsubj
9	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 sir	acl:relcl
10	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	11 habit	det
11	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 got	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 yawning	case
13	yawning	yawning	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 habit	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 inflicted	punct
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	22 inflicted	cc
16	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	22 inflicted	mark
17	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	18 attacks	det
18	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 inflicted	nsubj:pass
19	of	of	ADP	_	20 howling	case
20	howling	howling	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 attacks	nmod
21	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 inflicted	aux:pass
22	inflicted	inflict	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 got	conj
23	on	on	ADP	_	24 me	case
24	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 inflicted	obl
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 judgment	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 judgment	det
27	judgment	judgment	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 inflicted	obl
28	for	for	ADP	_	30 crimes	case
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 crimes	nmod:poss
30	crimes	crime	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 judgment	nmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 cause	punct
32	or	or	CCONJ	_	36 cause	cc
33	for	for	ADP	_	36 cause	case
34	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	36 cause	det
35	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	36 cause	amod
36	cause	cause	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 judgment	conj
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 know	punct
38	but	but	CCONJ	_	42 know	cc
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 know	nsubj
40	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	42 know	nsubj
41	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 know	aux
42	know	know	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 know	conj
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 that	punct
44	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 know	obj
45	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	47 yawn	advmod
46	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	47 yawn	nsubj
47	yawn	yawn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 know	ccomp
48	for	for	ADP	_	51 time	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 time	det
50	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	51 time	amod
51	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 yawn	obl
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 turn	punct
53	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	55 turn	nsubj
54	actually	actually	ADV	_	55 turn	advmod
55	turn	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 yawn	conj
56	into	into	ADP	_	58 wolf	case
57	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	58 wolf	det
58	wolf	wolf	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 turn	obl
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	61 men	cc
60	attack	attack	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 men	compound
61	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	58 wolf	conj
62	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct
63	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 know	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not know	present	I				sir vocative	vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	get	past	I	this habit of yawning				vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer habit=Stimulus
3	inflict	past · passive		this attacks of howling			on me; as a judgment for my crimes or any other cause	tree rules
4	know	present · do-support	this	that				tree rules
5	yawn	present	I			time		vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	turn	present	I		a wolf and attack men		actually property	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme into wolf=Trajectory
7	attack			howling				nom attack «act transitive»: of=patient
8	incriminate		my					nom crime «act 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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