Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 68

The Lark on hearing these words said to her brood, “It is time now to be off, my little ones, for the man is in earnest this time; he no longer trusts his friends, but will reap the field himself.”

Who acts: Lark, harvest, man, brood · What happens: hear, say, be, trust, reap · To what, where: words, brood, time, friends, field · 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 (Lark, harvest, man, brood), 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 Lark	det
2	Lark	lark	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	nsubj
3	on	on	SCONJ	_	4 hearing	mark
4	hearing	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Lark	acl
5	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 words	det
6	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 hearing	obj
7	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	10 brood	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 brood	nmod:poss
10	brood	brood	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 said	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 time	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 time	punct
13	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 time	nsubj
14	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 time	cop
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 brood	nmod
16	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	15 time	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	19 off	mark
18	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	19 off	cop
19	off	off	ADP	_	15 time	compound:prt
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 ones	punct
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 ones	nmod:poss
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 ones	amod
23	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 brood	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 earnest	punct
25	for	for	ADP	_	30 earnest	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 man	det
27	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 earnest	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 earnest	cop
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 earnest	case
30	earnest	earn	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 said	ccomp
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	32 time	det
32	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 earnest	obl:unmarked
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	37 trusts	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 trusts	nsubj
35	no	no	ADV	_	36 longer	advmod
36	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	37 trusts	advmod
37	trusts	trust	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 said	parataxis
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 friends	nmod:poss
39	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 trusts	obj
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 reap	punct
41	but	but	CCONJ	_	43 reap	cc
42	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	43 reap	aux
43	reap	reap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 trusts	conj
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	45 field	det
45	field	field	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 reap	obj
46	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Emp Reflex=Yes	45 field	nmod:unmarked
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 trusts	punct
48	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 trusts	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	hear	gerund	the Lark not said here	this words				vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Lark		bird's brood and my little ones			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to brood=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	harvest	time		now		tree rules
4	is in a quote	present	the man			time	earn property	tree rules
5	trust in a quote	present	brood	brood's friends			long property	vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Theme
6	reap in a quote	future	brood not said here	the field brood				vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme

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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