Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 115
The Lion said, “Well, since so huge a beast is afraid of a tiny gnat, I will no more complain, nor wish myself dead.
Who acts: Lion · What happens: say, be, know, wish · To what, where: more complain, Lion · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion), 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 Lion | det |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 said | nsubj |
| 3 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 5 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 afraid | punct |
| 6 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 14 afraid | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Well | punct |
| 8 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 10 huge | mark |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 10 huge | advmod |
| 10 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 afraid | amod |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 beast | det |
| 12 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 huge | nsubj |
| 13 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 afraid | cop |
| 14 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 said | ccomp |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 gnat | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 gnat | det |
| 17 | tiny | tiny | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 gnat | amod |
| 18 | gnat | gnat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 afraid | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 no | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 no | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 no | aux |
| 22 | no | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 afraid | conj |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 24 complain | amod |
| 24 | complain | complain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 no | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wish | punct |
| 26 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 27 wish | cc |
| 27 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 said | ccomp |
| 28 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 27 wish | iobj |
| 29 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 wish | xcomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Lion | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | of a tiny gnat; afraid property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | know in a quote | future | the Lion = lion | more complain | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer complain=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | the Lion = lion | dead property | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot myself=Theme |
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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