Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 19

The Birds gave no credence to these warning words, but considered the Owl to be beside herself and said that she was mad.

Who acts: Birds, bird · What happens: give, consider, be, say · To what, where: credence, warning words, Owl · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Birds, bird), 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 Birds	det
2	Birds	bird	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	nsubj
3	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	5 credence	det
5	credence	credence	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 gave	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	9 words	case
7	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	9 words	det
8	warning	warning	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 words	compound
9	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 gave	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 considered	punct
11	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 considered	cc
12	considered	consider	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 gave	parataxis
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Owl	det
14	Owl	Owl	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 considered	obj
15	to	to	PART	_	18 herself	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 herself	cop
17	beside	beside	ADP	_	18 herself	case
18	herself	herself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 considered	xcomp
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 said	cc
20	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 considered	conj
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 mad	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 mad	nsubj
23	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 mad	cop
24	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 said	ccomp
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 gave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	give	past	the Birds	no credence	this warning words		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credence=Theme to word=Recipient
2	consider	past		the Owl			vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent owl=Attribute
3	is	to-infinitive				beside bird	tree rules
4	say speech: assert	past					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
5	is	past	bird			mad 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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