Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 40
“But for what purpose have I,” said the bird, “this dumb beauty so long as I am surpassed in song?”
Who acts: bird · What happens: have, say, surpass · To what, where: bird · 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 (bird), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 have | cc |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 purpose | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 purpose | nsubj |
| 5 | purpose | purpose | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 have | obl |
| 6 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 have | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 have | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bird | det |
| 12 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 long | punct |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 17 beauty | det |
| 16 | dumb | dumb | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 beauty | amod |
| 17 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 long | nsubj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 long | advmod |
| 19 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 said | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 surpassed | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 surpassed | nsubj |
| 22 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 surpassed | aux:pass |
| 23 | surpassed | surpass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 long | advcl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 song | case |
| 25 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 surpassed | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have in a quote | present | the bird = bird | for purpose | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | the bird | long property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | surpass in a quote | present · passive | the bird = bird | in song | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme in song=Attribute |
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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