Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 11, sentence 84
The Lion said to the Fox, “It is not thou who revilest me; but this mischance which has befallen me.”
Who acts: Lion, cage · What happens: say, not be, befall · To what, where: Fox, mischance · 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 (Lion, cage), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 Fox | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Fox | det |
| 6 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 said | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 revilest | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 revilest | punct |
| 9 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 revilest | nsubj |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 revilest | cop |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 revilest | advmod |
| 12 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 14 revilest | nsubj |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 revilest | nsubj |
| 14 | revilest | revile | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | conj |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 revilest | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 befallen | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 befallen | cc |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 mischance | det |
| 19 | mischance | mischance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 befallen | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 befallen | aux |
| 22 | befallen | befall | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 said | ccomp |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 befallen | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 befallen | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 befallen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | the Fox | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to fox=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not is in a quote | present | cage | revile property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | befall in a quote | present · perfect · passive | this mischance | 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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