Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 65

“There is no occasion to move yet, my son,” she replied; “the man who only sends to his friends to help him with his harvest is not really in earnest.”

Who acts: occasion, man · What happens: move, be, reply, send, help, not be · To what, where: son, friends, brood · 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 (occasion, man), 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	_	3 is	punct
2	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	3 is	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 son	cop
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 occasion	det
5	occasion	occasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 is	nsubj
6	to	to	PART	_	7 move	mark
7	move	move	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 occasion	acl
8	yet	yet	ADV	_	7 move	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 is	punct
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 son	nmod:poss
11	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 replied	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
13	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 son	punct
14	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 replied	nsubj
15	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
16	;	;	PUNCT	_	36 earnest	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	36 earnest	punct
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 man	det
19	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 earnest	nsubj
20	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 sends	nsubj
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 sends	advmod
22	sends	send	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 man	acl:relcl
23	to	to	ADP	_	25 friends	case
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 friends	nmod:poss
25	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sends	obl
26	to	to	PART	_	27 help	mark
27	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 sends	advcl
28	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 help	obj
29	with	with	ADP	_	31 harvest	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 harvest	nmod:poss
31	harvest	harvest	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 help	obl
32	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	36 earnest	cop
33	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	36 earnest	advmod
34	really	really	ADV	_	36 earnest	advmod
35	in	in	ADP	_	36 earnest	case
36	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	15 replied	advcl
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	15 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	move in a quote	to-infinitive				yet		vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme
2	is a in a quote	present		my son				tree rules
3	reply speech: assert	past	occasion					vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	send in a quote	present	the man		brood's friends			vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to friend=Destination
5	help in a quote	to-infinitive	the man not said here		brood		with brood's harvest	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary with harvest=Theme
6	not is in a quote	present	the man				earn property	tree rules

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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