Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 6

When he found the unfortunate Swallow lifeless on the ground, he said, “Unhappy bird! what have you done?

Who acts: he, you · What happens: find, say, do · To what, where: unfortunate Swallow lifeless, ground · 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 (he, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 found	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 found	nsubj
3	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	advcl
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 lifeless	det
5	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 lifeless	amod
6	Swallow	Swallow	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 lifeless	compound
7	lifeless	lifeless	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 found	obj
8	on	on	ADP	_	10 ground	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 ground	det
10	ground	ground	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 lifeless	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 found	punct
12	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 said	nsubj
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
16	Unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 bird	amod
17	bird	bird	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	ccomp
18	!	!	PUNCT	_	17 bird	punct
19	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	22 done	obj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	22 done	aux
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	22 done	nsubj
22	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 said	ccomp
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	find	past	he	the unfortunate Swallow lifeless	the ground	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lifeless=Topic
2	say speech: ask	past	he			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	do in a quote	present · perfect	you			vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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