Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 9, sentence 85

Turning to the Kid, he said, “It is just what I deserve; for I, who am only a butcher, should not have turned piper to please you.”

Who acts: favour, sound, butcher · What happens: turn, say, be, deserve, not turn, please · To what, where: piper, you · 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 (favour, sound, butcher), 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	Turning	turn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 said	advcl
2	to	to	ADP	_	4 Kid	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Kid	det
4	Kid	kid	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Turning	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Turning	punct
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 said	nsubj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
9	“	"	PUNCT	_	13 what	punct
10	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 what	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	cop
12	just	just	ADV	_	13 what	advmod
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	7 said	parataxis
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 deserve	nsubj
15	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 what	acl:relcl
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	24 butcher	punct
17	for	for	ADP	_	24 butcher	case
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 butcher	nsubj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 am	punct
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 am	nsubj
21	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 butcher	cop
22	only	only	ADV	_	24 butcher	advmod
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 butcher	det
24	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	ccomp
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 turned	punct
26	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 turned	aux
27	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 turned	advmod
28	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	29 turned	aux
29	turned	turn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	24 butcher	acl:relcl
30	piper	piper	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 turned	xcomp
31	to	to	PART	_	32 please	mark
32	please	please	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 turned	advcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 please	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 butcher	punct
35	”	"	PUNCT	_	24 butcher	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	turn	gerund	favour not said here		to the Kid result	vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to kid=Result
2	say speech: assert	past	favour			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	sound			tree rules
4	deserve in a quote	present	favour			tree rules
5	is in a quote	present	favour		for a butcher	tree rules
6	not turn in a quote	should · perfect	a butcher not said here	piper		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
7	please in a quote	to-infinitive	a butcher not said here	you		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer

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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