Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 10, sentence 90

The Goat, envying the Ass on account of his greater abundance of food, said, “How shamefully you are treated: at one time grinding in the mill, and at another carrying heavy burdens;” and he further advised him to pretend to be epileptic and fall into a ditch and so obtain rest.

Who acts: Goat, one time, feeding, hunger · What happens: envy, say, treat, grind, carry, advise · To what, where: Ass, account, carrying heavy burdens, you, mill, hunger · 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 (Goat, one time, feeding, hunger), 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 Goat	det
2	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 said	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 envying	punct
4	envying	envy	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 Goat	acl
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 Ass	det
6	Ass	ass	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 envying	obj
7	on	on	ADP	_	8 account	case
8	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 envying	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	12 abundance	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 abundance	nmod:poss
11	greater	great	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	12 abundance	amod
12	abundance	abundance	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 account	nmod
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 food	case
14	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 abundance	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Goat	punct
16	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 treated	punct
18	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 treated	punct
19	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	20 shamefully	advmod
20	shamefully	shamefully	ADV	_	23 treated	advmod
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 treated	nsubj:pass
22	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 treated	aux:pass
23	treated	treat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 said	conj
24	:	:	PUNCT	_	27 time	punct
25	at	at	ADP	_	27 time	case
26	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	27 time	nummod
27	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 said	obl
28	grinding	grind	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	27 time	acl
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 mill	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 mill	det
31	mill	mill	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 grinding	obl
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 burdens	punct
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 burdens	cc
34	at	at	ADP	_	38 burdens	case
35	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	38 burdens	det
36	carrying	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	38 burdens	amod
37	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 burdens	amod
38	burdens	burden	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 said	obl
39	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 ”	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct
41	and	and	CCONJ	_	44 advised	cc
42	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 advised	nsubj
43	further	further	ADV	_	44 advised	advmod
44	advised	advise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 said	conj
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 advised	obj
46	to	to	PART	_	47 pretend	mark
47	pretend	pretend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 advised	xcomp
48	to	to	PART	_	50 epileptic	mark
49	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	50 epileptic	cop
50	epileptic	epileptic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 pretend	xcomp
51	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 fall	cc
52	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 pretend	conj
53	into	into	ADP	_	55 ditch	case
54	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	55 ditch	det
55	ditch	ditch	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 fall	obl
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 obtain	cc
57	so	so	ADV	_	58 obtain	advmod
58	obtain	obtain	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	44 advised	conj
59	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 obtain	obj
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	envy	gerund	the Goat not said here	the Ass	account of feeding's greater abundance of food			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer ass=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	the Goat		another carrying heavy burdens	time		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	treat in a quote	present · passive		you			shamefully property	vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient
4	grind in a quote	gerund	one time not said here		the mill			vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient
5	carry in a quote	gerund						vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	advise speech: other	past	feeding	hunger			further property	vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	pretend not said to happen	to-infinitive	hunger not said here					tree rules
8	is	to-infinitive	hunger not said here				epileptic property	tree rules
9	fall	infinitive	hunger not said here				into a ditch result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into ditch=Result
10	obtain	infinitive	feeding not said here	rest				vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset rest=Theme
11	account			feeding's greater abundance of food				nom account «communication 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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