Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 75
She resorted to all her tricks to get at them, but wearied herself in vain, for she could not reach them.
Who acts: conversation · What happens: resort, get, weary, not reach, trick · To what, where: conversation, vain, tricks
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 (conversation), 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 | She | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 resorted | nsubj |
| 2 | resorted | resort | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 tricks | case |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 6 tricks | det:predet |
| 5 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 resorted | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 get | mark |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 resorted | advcl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 them | case |
| 10 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 get | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wearied | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 wearied | cc |
| 13 | wearied | weary | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 resorted | conj |
| 14 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 wearied | obj |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 vain | case |
| 16 | vain | vain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 wearied | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 reach | punct |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 22 reach | mark |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reach | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 reach | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 22 reach | advmod |
| 22 | reach | reach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 wearied | advcl |
| 23 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reach | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 resorted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resort | past | conversation | to conversation's tricks result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to trick=Result | ||||
| 2 | get | to-infinitive | conversation not said here | at tricks = trick | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | weary | past | conversation not said here | conversation | vain | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus herself=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | not reach | could | conversation | tricks = trick | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent they=Theme | ||||
| 5 | trick | conversation | nom trick «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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