Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 15

When they had dragged the nets to the shore they found but few fish: the nets were full of sand and stones, and the men were beyond measure cast down so much at the disappointment which had befallen them, but because they had formed such very different expectations.

Who acts: nets, men · What happens: drag, find, be, cast down, befall, form · To what, where: nets, shore, measure, disappointment, such different expectations

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 (nets, men), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	4 dragged	advmod
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 dragged	nsubj:pass
3	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 dragged	aux
4	dragged	drag	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 nets	det
6	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 dragged	obj
7	to	to	ADP	_	9 shore	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 shore	det
9	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 dragged	obl
10	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 found	nsubj
11	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 shore	acl:relcl
12	but	but	CCONJ	_	14 fish	cc
13	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 fish	amod
14	fish	fish	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 shore	conj
15	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 full	punct
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 nets	det
17	nets	net	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 full	nsubj
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 full	cop
19	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 dragged	conj
20	of	of	ADP	_	21 sand	case
21	sand	sand	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 full	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 stones	cc
23	stones	stone	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 sand	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 measure	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 measure	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 men	det
27	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 measure	nsubj
28	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 measure	cop
29	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	30 measure	case
30	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 full	parataxis
31	cast	cast	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 measure	acl
32	down	down	ADP	_	31 cast	compound:prt
33	so	so	ADV	_	34 much	advmod
34	much	much	ADV	_	31 cast	advmod
35	at	at	ADP	_	37 disappointment	case
36	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 disappointment	det
37	disappointment	disappointment	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 cast	obl
38	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	40 befallen	nsubj:pass
39	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 befallen	aux
40	befallen	befall	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	37 disappointment	acl:relcl
41	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 befallen	obj
42	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 formed	punct
43	but	but	CCONJ	_	47 formed	cc
44	because	because	SCONJ	_	47 formed	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 formed	nsubj
46	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 formed	aux
47	formed	form	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 dragged	advcl
48	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 expectations	amod
49	very	very	ADV	_	50 different	advmod
50	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 expectations	amod
51	expectations	expectation	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 formed	obj
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 dragged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	drag	past · perfect · passive		nets = net		to the shore but few fish	tree rules
2	find	past	nets = net	the shore but few fish not said here			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shore=Topic
3	is	past	the nets			of sand and stones; full property	tree rules
4	is	past	the men			beyond measure	tree rules
5	cast down	participle		measure not said here	the disappointment		vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at disappointment=Destination
6	befall	past · perfect · passive		the disappointment			tree rules
7	form	past · perfect	nets = net	such different expectations			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location expectation=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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