Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 64
He first blamed the work of Neptune because he had not made the horns of the bull below his eyes, so he might better see where to strike.
Who acts: Momus, Neptune · What happens: blame, not make, see, strike, work · To what, where: work, horns
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 (Momus, Neptune), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 blamed | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 blamed | advmod |
| 3 | blamed | blame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 work | det |
| 5 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 blamed | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 Neptune | case |
| 7 | Neptune | Neptune | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 work | nmod |
| 8 | because | because | SCONJ | _ | 12 made | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 made | nsubj |
| 10 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 made | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 made | advmod |
| 12 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 blamed | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horns | det |
| 14 | horns | horn | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 made | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 bull | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 bull | det |
| 17 | bull | bull | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 horns | nmod |
| 18 | below | below | ADP | _ | 20 eyes | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 20 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 bull | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 see | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 26 see | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 see | nsubj |
| 24 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 see | aux |
| 25 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 26 see | advmod |
| 26 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 blamed | advcl |
| 27 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 strike | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 strike | mark |
| 29 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 see | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 blamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | blame | past | Momus | the work of Neptune | first property | vn judgment-33.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme | |||
| 2 | not make | past · perfect | Momus | the horns of the bull below Momus's eyes | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horn=Product | ||||
| 3 | see | might | Momus | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | strike | to-infinitive | Momus not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | work | Neptune | nom work «act intransitive»: of=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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