Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 12, sentence 66

And, lastly, he inveighed against Minerva because she had not contrived iron wheels in the foundation of her house, so its inhabitants might more easily remove if a neighbor proved unpleasant.

Who acts: Momus, inhabitants, neighbor · What happens: inveigh, not contrive, remove, prove · To what, where: Minerva, foundation

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, inhabitants, neighbor), 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	And	and	CCONJ	_	3 lastly	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 lastly	punct
3	lastly	lastly	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 inveighed	punct
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 inveighed	nsubj
6	inveighed	inveigh	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 lastly	parataxis
7	against	against	ADP	_	8 Minerva	case
8	Minerva	Minerva	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 inveighed	obl
9	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 contrived	mark
10	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 contrived	nsubj:pass
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 contrived	aux
12	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	13 contrived	advmod
13	contrived	contrive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 inveighed	advcl
14	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 wheels	compound
15	wheels	wheel	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 contrived	obj
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 foundation	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 foundation	det
18	foundation	foundation	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 contrived	obl
19	of	of	ADP	_	21 house	case
20	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	21 house	nmod:poss
21	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 foundation	nmod
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 remove	punct
23	so	so	ADV	_	29 remove	advmod
24	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 inhabitants	nmod:poss
25	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 remove	nsubj
26	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 remove	aux
27	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	28 easily	advmod
28	easily	easily	ADV	_	29 remove	advmod
29	remove	remove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 inveighed	conj
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 proved	mark
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 neighbor	det
32	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 proved	nsubj
33	proved	prove	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 remove	ccomp
34	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 proved	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 lastly	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	inveigh	past	Momus			against Minerva	tree rules
2	not contrive	past · perfect · passive		Minerva	the foundation of Minerva's house		tree rules
3	remove	might	house's inhabitants			easily property	tree rules
4	prove a condition, not said to happen	past	a neighbor			unpleasant property	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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