Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 63
Momus, however, being very envious of the handicraft of each, found fault with all.
What happens: be, find
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: 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 | Momus | momus | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 envious | punct |
| 3 | however | however | ADV | _ | 7 envious | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 however | punct |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 envious | cop |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 envious | advmod |
| 7 | envious | envious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Momus | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 handicraft | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 handicraft | det |
| 10 | handicraft | handicraft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 envious | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 each | case |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 handicraft | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 fault | punct |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 fault | amod |
| 15 | fault | fault | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Momus | conj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 all | case |
| 17 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 fault | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Momus | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | of the handicraft of each; envious, however property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | participle | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=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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