Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 23

The Country Mouse, being much delighted at the sight of such good cheer, expressed his satisfaction in warm terms and lamented his own hard fate.

Who acts: Country Mouse, luxury · What happens: be, express, lament, sight, satisfy, fate · To what, where: sight, satisfaction, warm terms, own hard fate, such good cheer

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 (Country Mouse, luxury), 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 Mouse	det
2	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Mouse	compound
3	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	16 expressed	nsubj
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 delighted	punct
5	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	7 delighted	cop
6	much	much	ADV	_	7 delighted	advmod
7	delighted	delighted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Mouse	conj
8	at	at	ADP	_	10 sight	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 sight	det
10	sight	sight	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 delighted	obl
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 cheer	case
12	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cheer	amod
13	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 cheer	amod
14	cheer	cheer	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sight	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 Mouse	punct
16	expressed	express	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
17	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 satisfaction	nmod:poss
18	satisfaction	satisfaction	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 expressed	obj
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 terms	case
20	warm	warm	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 terms	amod
21	terms	term	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 expressed	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 lamented	cc
23	lamented	lament	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 expressed	conj
24	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 fate	nmod:poss
25	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fate	amod
26	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 fate	amod
27	fate	fate	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 lamented	obj
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	16 expressed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	gerund	the Country Mouse not said here		the sight of such good cheer	delighted property	tree rules
2	express	past	the Country Mouse	luxury's satisfaction	warm terms		vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent satisfaction=Theme
3	lament	past	the Country Mouse not said here	luxury's own hard fate			vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus
4	sight			such good cheer			nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient
5	satisfy		luxury				nom satisfaction «feeling transitive»: poss=agent
6	fate		luxury				nom fate «event 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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