Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 76

At last she turned away, hiding her disappointment and saying: “The Grapes are sour, and not ripe as I thought.”

Who acts: conversation, Grapes · What happens: turn away, hide, say, be, think, disappoint · To what, where: last, disappointment · 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 (conversation, Grapes), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turned	obl
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 turned	nsubj
4	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	away	away	ADV	_	4 turned	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 hiding	punct
7	hiding	hide	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 turned	advcl
8	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 disappointment	nmod:poss
9	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 hiding	obj
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 saying	cc
11	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 hiding	conj
12	:	:	PUNCT	_	17 sour	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 sour	punct
14	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 Grapes	det
15	Grapes	Grape	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 sour	nsubj
16	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 sour	cop
17	sour	sour	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 saying	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 ripe	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 ripe	cc
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 ripe	advmod
21	ripe	ripe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 turned	parataxis
22	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 thought	mark
23	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 thought	nsubj
24	thought	think	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 ripe	advcl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct
26	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 turned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	turn away	past	conversation		last	away property	tree rules
2	hide	gerund	conversation not said here	conversation's disappointment			vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent disappointment=Patient
3	say speech: assert	gerund	conversation not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	the Grapes			sour property	tree rules
5	think speech: other in a quote	past	conversation				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	disappoint		conversation				nom disappointment «feeling 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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