Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 21

Hence it is that when she appears they look to her as knowing all things, while she no longer gives them advice, but in solitude laments their past folly.

Who acts: bird, words · What happens: be, look, know, give · To what, where: knowledge, bird, things, advice, words

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 (bird, words), 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	Hence	hence	ADV	_	7 appears	advmod
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 appears	expl
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 appears	cop
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 appears	mark
5	when	when	SCONJ	_	7 appears	mark
6	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 appears	nsubj
7	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 look	advcl
8	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 look	nsubj
9	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	to	to	ADP	_	11 her	case
11	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 look	obl
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	13 knowing	mark
13	knowing	know	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 look	advcl
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 things	det
15	things	thing	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 knowing	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 gives	punct
17	while	while	SCONJ	_	21 gives	mark
18	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gives	nsubj
19	no	no	ADV	_	20 longer	advmod
20	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	21 gives	advmod
21	gives	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 look	conj
22	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 gives	iobj
23	advice	advice	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	obj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 folly	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 folly	cc
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 laments	case
27	solitude	solitude	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 laments	compound
28	laments	lament	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 folly	obl
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 folly	nmod:poss
30	past	past	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 folly	amod
31	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 gives	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	bird	knowledge		appear, hence property	tree rules
2	look	present	words = word		bird		vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to she=Theme
3	know	gerund	words = word not said here	all things			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer thing=Stimulus
4	give	present	bird	advice	words = word	words's past folly obl; long property	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient advice=Theme

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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