Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 37

THE PEACOCK made complaint to Juno that, while the nightingale pleased every ear with his song, he himself no sooner opened his mouth than he became a laughingstock to all who heard him.

Who acts: PEACOCK, nightingale, laughingstock, Juno · What happens: make, open, become, hear, sing · To what, where: complaint, Juno, mouth, laughingstock, nightingale

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (PEACOCK, nightingale, laughingstock, Juno), 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 PEACOCK	det
2	PEACOCK	peacock	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	complaint	complaint	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 Juno	case
6	Juno	Juno	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
7	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 made	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 ear	punct
9	while	while	SCONJ	_	12 pleased	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 nightingale	det
11	nightingale	nightingale	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 pleased	nsubj
12	pleased	pleased	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 ear	amod
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 ear	det
14	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obl
15	with	with	ADP	_	17 song	case
16	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	17 song	nmod:poss
17	song	song	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 ear	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 opened	punct
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 opened	nsubj
20	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	19 he	nmod:unmarked
21	no	no	ADV	_	22 sooner	advmod
22	sooner	soon	ADV	Degree=Cmp	23 opened	advmod
23	opened	open	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 made	parataxis
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 mouth	nmod:poss
25	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 opened	obj
26	than	than	SCONJ	_	28 became	mark
27	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 became	nsubj
28	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 opened	advcl
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 laughingstock	det
30	laughingstock	laughingstock	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 became	xcomp
31	to	to	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	30 laughingstock	nmod
33	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 heard	nsubj
34	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 laughingstock	acl:relcl
35	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 heard	obj
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	the PEACOCK	complaint	Juno	every pleased ear with Juno's song obl	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset complaint=Beneficiary that=Product
2	open	past	nightingale	Juno's mouth		soon property	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme
3	become	past	nightingale	a laughingstock to all			vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	hear	past	a laughingstock to all	nightingale			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus
5	sing		Juno				nom song «communication intransitive»: 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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