Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 38
The Goddess, to console him, said, “But you far excel in beauty and in size.
Who acts: Goddess, you · What happens: say, excel · To what, where: beauty · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Goddess, you), 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 Goddess | det |
| 2 | Goddess | Goddess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 console | punct |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 console | mark |
| 5 | console | console | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Goddess | appos |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 console | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Goddess | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 excel | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 excel | punct |
| 11 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 excel | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 excel | nsubj |
| 13 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 excel | advmod |
| 14 | excel | excel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 beauty | case |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 excel | obl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 size | cc |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 size | case |
| 19 | size | size | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 beauty | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Goddess | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | excel in a quote | present | you | beauty and size | far property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in beauty=Eventuality |
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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