Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 113

The soup fell out of the long bill of the Crane at every mouthful, and his vexation at not being able to eat afforded the Fox much amusement.

Who acts: soup, vexation, Mercury · What happens: fall, not be, eat, afford, bill, vex · To what, where: vexation, long bill, Fox, Crane

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 (soup, vexation, Mercury), 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 soup	det
2	soup	soup	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	nsubj
3	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	out	out	ADP	_	8 bill	case
5	of	of	ADP	_	8 bill	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 bill	det
7	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 bill	amod
8	bill	bill	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Crane	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Crane	det
11	Crane	Crane	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 bill	nmod
12	at	at	ADP	_	14 mouthful	case
13	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	14 mouthful	det
14	mouthful	mouthful	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 vexation	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 vexation	cc
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 vexation	nmod:poss
18	vexation	vexation	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 fell	obl
19	at	at	ADP	_	22 able	case
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 able	advmod
21	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	22 able	cop
22	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 vexation	acl
23	to	to	PART	_	24 eat	mark
24	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 able	xcomp
25	afforded	afford	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 eat	xcomp
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Fox	det
27	Fox	fox	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 afforded	obj
28	much	much	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 amusement	amod
29	amusement	amusement	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 afforded	obl:agent
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 fell	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	fall	past	the soup	Mercury's vexation	the long bill of the Crane	at every mouthful	vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme out bill=Location
2	not is	gerund	Mercury's vexation not said here			able property	tree rules
3	eat	to-infinitive	Mercury's vexation not said here				tree rules
4	afford	participle	Mercury's vexation not said here	the Fox			tree rules
5	bill			the Crane			nom bill «communication transitive»: of=patient
6	vex		Mercury				nom vexation «feeling transitive»: poss=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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