Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 36
The Hare was comforted in her death, and expiring said, “Ah! you who so lately, when you supposed yourself safe, exulted over my calamity, have now reason to deplore a similar misfortune.”
Who acts: you, Hare · What happens: comfort, expire, say, suppose, exult, have · To what, where: Hare, death, yourself, calamity, reason, similar misfortune · 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 (you, Hare), 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 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 comforted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 comforted | aux:pass |
| 4 | comforted | comfort | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 death | case |
| 6 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 death | nmod:poss |
| 7 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 comforted | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 said | cc |
| 10 | expiring | expire | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 said | nsubj |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 comforted | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 supposed | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 supposed | punct |
| 14 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 19 lately | discourse |
| 15 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 14 Ah | punct |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 lately | nsubj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 lately | nsubj |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 lately | advmod |
| 19 | lately | lately | ADV | _ | 23 supposed | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 supposed | punct |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 supposed | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 supposed | nsubj |
| 23 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 said | parataxis |
| 24 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 supposed | obj |
| 25 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 supposed | xcomp |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 exulted | punct |
| 27 | exulted | exult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 safe | conj |
| 28 | over | over | ADP | _ | 30 calamity | case |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 calamity | nmod:poss |
| 30 | calamity | calamity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 exulted | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 have | punct |
| 32 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 supposed | conj |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 reason | advmod |
| 34 | reason | reason | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 have | obj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 deplore | mark |
| 36 | deplore | deplore | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 reason | acl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 misfortune | det |
| 38 | similar | similar | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 misfortune | amod |
| 39 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 deplore | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 comforted | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 comforted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | comfort | past · passive | the Hare | Hare's death | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | expire | gerund | vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | say speech: express | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 4 | suppose in a quote | past | you | yourself | lately, safe property | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Attribute | |||
| 5 | exult in a quote | participle | you not said here | my calamity | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | have in a quote | present | you not said here | reason | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reason=Patient | ||||
| 7 | deplore in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a similar misfortune | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer misfortune=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | die | Hare | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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