Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 7

A FLY sat on the axle-tree of a chariot, and addressing the Draught-Mule said, “How slow you are!

Who acts: FLY, addressing, you · What happens: sit, address, say, be · To what, where: axle tree, Draught Mule · 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 (FLY, addressing, you), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 FLY	det
2	FLY	fly	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	nsubj
3	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	on	on	ADP	_	8 tree	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 tree	det
6	axle	axle	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	compound
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 axle	punct
8	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 sat	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 chariot	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 chariot	det
11	chariot	chariot	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 tree	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 said	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 said	cc
14	addressing	address	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	19 said	csubj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Mule	det
16	Draught	draught	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 Mule	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 Draught	punct
18	Mule	mule	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 addressing	obj
19	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 sat	conj
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 slow	punct
21	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 slow	punct
22	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	23 slow	advmod
23	slow	slow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 said	ccomp
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 slow	nsubj
25	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 slow	cop
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	3 sat	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	sit	past	a FLY		the axle tree of a chariot		vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on tree=Location
2	address	gerund		the Draught Mule			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mule=Destination
3	say speech: express	past	addressing				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	is in a quote	present	you			slow property	tree rules

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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