Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 87

The Wolf, being thus fearfully mauled, said, “I am rightly served, for why did I attempt the art of healing, when my father only taught me the trade of a butcher?”

Who acts: Wolf, father · What happens: maul, say, serve, attempt, teach, trade · To what, where: Wolf, art, trade, butcher · 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 (Wolf, father), 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 Wolf	det
2	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 mauled	punct
4	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 mauled	aux:pass
5	thus	thus	ADV	_	7 mauled	advmod
6	fearfully	fearfully	ADV	_	7 mauled	advmod
7	mauled	maul	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 Wolf	acl:relcl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Wolf	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 served	punct
11	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 served	punct
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 served	nsubj
13	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 served	aux:pass
14	rightly	rightly	ADV	_	15 served	advmod
15	served	serve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 said	ccomp
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 attempt	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 attempt	mark
18	why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	21 attempt	advmod
19	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 attempt	aux
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 attempt	nsubj
21	attempt	attempt	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 served	parataxis
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 art	det
23	art	art	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 attempt	obj
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 healing	case
25	healing	healing	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 art	nmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 taught	punct
27	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	31 taught	advmod
28	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 father	nmod:poss
29	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taught	nsubj
30	only	only	ADV	_	31 taught	advmod
31	taught	teach	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 attempt	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 taught	obj
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 trade	det
34	trade	trade	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 taught	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 butcher	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 butcher	det
37	butcher	butcher	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 trade	nmod
38	?	?	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct
39	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	maul	gerund · passive		the Wolf not said here		fearfully, thus property	tree rules
2	say speech: ask	past	the Wolf				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	serve in a quote	present · passive		the Wolf = wolf		rightly property	vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute
4	attempt in a quote	past · do-support	the Wolf = wolf	the art of healing			vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent art=Eventuality
5	teach speech: other in a quote	past	my father	the trade of a butcher	the Wolf = wolf		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient trade=Topic
6	trade in a quote			a butcher			nom trade «act transitive»: of=patient

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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