Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 39

The Ox replied: “I do not wish to be ungrateful, for I am loved and well cared for by men, and they often pat my head and shoulders.”

Who acts: Ox, MAN · What happens: reply, not wish, be, love, care, pat · To what, where: Ox, head · 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 (Ox, MAN), 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 Ox	det
2	Ox	ox	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	:	:	PUNCT	_	9 wish	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 wish	punct
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 wish	nsubj
7	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	aux
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	9 wish	advmod
9	wish	wish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 replied	ccomp
10	to	to	PART	_	12 ungrateful	mark
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 ungrateful	cop
12	ungrateful	ungrateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 wish	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 loved	punct
14	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 loved	mark
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 loved	nsubj
16	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 loved	aux:pass
17	loved	love	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 wish	conj
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 cared	cc
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	20 cared	advmod
20	cared	care	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 loved	conj
21	for	for	ADP	_	20 cared	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 men	case
23	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 cared	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 pat	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 pat	cc
26	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	28 pat	nsubj
27	often	often	ADV	_	28 pat	advmod
28	pat	pat	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 wish	conj
29	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 head	nmod:poss
30	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 pat	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 shoulders	cc
32	shoulders	shoulder	NOUN	Number=Plur	30 head	conj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 wish	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 wish	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Ox			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not wish in a quote	present · do-support	the Ox = ox			vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot
3	is not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Ox = ox not said here		ungrateful property	tree rules
4	love in a quote	present · passive		the Ox = ox		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus
5	care in a quote	participle			by men; well property	vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
6	pat in a quote	present	MAN	my head and shoulders	often property	vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent head=Experiencer

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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