Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 69
Men of evil reputation, when they perform a good deed, fail to get credit for it.
Who acts: Men · What happens: perform, fail, not get · To what, where: good deed, credit
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 (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 | Men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 perform | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 reputation | case |
| 3 | evil | evil | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 reputation | amod |
| 4 | reputation | reputation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Men | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 perform | punct |
| 6 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 perform | advmod |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 perform | nsubj |
| 8 | perform | perform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 deed | det |
| 10 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 deed | amod |
| 11 | deed | deed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 perform | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 fail | punct |
| 13 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 perform | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 get | mark |
| 15 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 fail | xcomp |
| 16 | credit | credit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 get | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 get | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 perform | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perform | present | Men of evil reputation | a good deed | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Theme | ||||
| 2 | fail | infinitive | Men of evil reputation not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | not get | to-infinitive | Men of evil reputation not said here | credit | for credit | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent credit=Theme for it=Source |
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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