Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 102

The North Wind first tried his power and blew with all his might, but the keener his blasts, the closer the Traveler wrapped his cloak around him, until at last, resigning all hope of victory, the Wind called upon the Sun to see what he could do.

Who acts: North Wind, Traveler, space, victory · What happens: try, blow, wrap, resign, call, see · To what, where: power, cloak, hope, Wind · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (North Wind, Traveler, space, victory), 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	3 Wind	det
2	North	North	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Wind	compound
3	Wind	Wind	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 tried	nsubj
4	first	first	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	5 tried	advmod
5	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 power	nmod:poss
7	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 tried	obj
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 blew	cc
9	blew	blow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	conj
10	with	with	SCONJ	_	13 might	mark
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	13 might	det:predet
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 might	nmod:poss
13	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 blew	advcl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 keener	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 keener	cc
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 keener	det
17	keener	keen	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 wrapped	advmod
18	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 blasts	nmod:poss
19	blasts	blast	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 keener	nsubj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 wrapped	punct
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 closer	det
22	closer	close	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	25 wrapped	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Traveler	det
24	Traveler	Traveler	PROPN	Number=Sing	25 wrapped	nsubj
25	wrapped	wrap	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 tried	conj
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 cloak	nmod:poss
27	cloak	cloak	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 wrapped	obj
28	around	around	ADP	_	29 him	case
29	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 wrapped	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 last	punct
31	until	until	ADP	_	33 last	case
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 last	case
33	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 wrapped	conj
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 resigning	punct
35	resigning	resign	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 last	advcl
36	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	37 hope	det
37	hope	hope	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 resigning	obj
38	of	of	ADP	_	39 victory	case
39	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hope	nmod
40	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 Wind	punct
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Wind	det
42	Wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 hope	conj
43	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 Wind	acl
44	upon	upon	ADP	_	46 Sun	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 Sun	det
46	Sun	Sun	PROPN	Number=Sing	43 called	obl
47	to	to	PART	_	48 see	mark
48	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 resigning	advcl
49	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	52 do	obj
50	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	52 do	nsubj
51	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	52 do	aux
52	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	48 see	ccomp
53	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	try	past	the North Wind	space's power	first property	vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality
2	blow	past	the North Wind not said here			vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient
3	wrap	past	the Traveler	space's cloak	around space	vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent cloak=Theme around he=Destination
4	resign	gerund	the Traveler not said here	all hope of victory and the Wind		vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent hope=Theme
5	call	participle		the Wind not said here	upon the Sun	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	see	to-infinitive	the Traveler not said here			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
7	do	could	space			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality
8	blast		space			nom blast «act transitive»: poss=agent
9	hope		victory			nom hope «feeling intransitive»: of=agent

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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