Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 26

At last the Country Mouse, almost famished, said to his friend: “Although you have prepared for me so dainty a feast, I must leave you to enjoy it by yourself.

Who acts: friend, I · What happens: famish, say, prepare, leave, enjoy · To what, where: friend, dainty, feast · 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 (friend, I), 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	At	at	ADP	_	5 Mouse	case
2	last	last	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 Mouse	amod
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Mouse	det
4	Country	Country	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 Mouse	compound
5	Mouse	Mouse	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 famished	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 Mouse	punct
7	almost	almost	ADV	_	8 famished	advmod
8	famished	famish	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 said	punct
10	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 famished	conj
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 friend	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 said	obl
14	:	:	PUNCT	_	29 leave	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	29 leave	punct
16	Although	although	SCONJ	_	19 prepared	mark
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 prepared	nsubj
18	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 prepared	aux
19	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 leave	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	21 me	case
21	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 prepared	obl
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 dainty	advmod
23	dainty	dainty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prepared	obl
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 feast	det
25	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 prepared	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 prepared	punct
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 leave	nsubj
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 leave	aux
29	leave	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 famished	conj
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 leave	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 enjoy	mark
32	enjoy	enjoy	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 leave	advcl
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 enjoy	obj
34	by	by	ADP	_	35 yourself	case
35	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	32 enjoy	obl
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 famished	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	famish	past				at the last Country Mouse; almost property	tree rules
2	say speech: assert	past			luxury's friend		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to friend=Recipient
3	prepare in a quote	present · perfect	luxury's friend = friend	dainty		for me	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent feast=Product for i=Beneficiary
4	leave in a quote	must	I	luxury's friend = friend			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme
5	enjoy in a quote	to-infinitive	I not said here	feast		by luxury's friend = friend	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus

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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