Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 62

The Cobbler, under the fear of death, confessed that he had no knowledge of medicine, and was only made famous by the stupid clamors of the crowd.

Who acts: Cobbler, stupid clamors · What happens: confess, have, make, fear, clamor · To what, where: knowledge, death, crowd

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 (Cobbler, stupid clamors), 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 Cobbler	det
2	Cobbler	Cobbler	PROPN	Number=Sing	10 confessed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 fear	punct
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 fear	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 fear	det
6	fear	fear	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Cobbler	appos
7	of	of	ADP	_	8 death	case
8	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 fear	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Cobbler	punct
10	confessed	confess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 confessed	ccomp
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 knowledge	det
15	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 medicine	case
17	medicine	medicine	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 knowledge	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 made	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 made	cc
20	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 made	aux:pass
21	only	only	ADV	_	22 made	advmod
22	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 confessed	conj
23	famous	famous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 made	xcomp
24	by	by	ADP	_	27 clamors	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 clamors	det
26	stupid	stupid	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 clamors	amod
27	clamors	clamor	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 made	obl
28	of	of	ADP	_	30 crowd	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 crowd	det
30	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 clamors	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 confessed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	confess	past	the Cobbler			vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past	COBBLER	no knowledge of medicine		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient
3	make	past · passive	the stupid clamors of the crowd		famous property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
4	fear			death		nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=patient
5	clamor			the crowd		nom clamor «event transitive»: of=patient

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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