Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 116
I find myself, even as I am, better off than the Elephant.”
Who acts: I · What happens: find · To what, where: myself
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 (I), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 find | nsubj |
| 2 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 2 find | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 am | punct |
| 5 | even | even | ADV | _ | 8 am | advmod |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 am | mark |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 am | nsubj |
| 8 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 find | advcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 better | punct |
| 10 | better | well | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 2 find | advmod |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 better | compound:prt |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 14 Elephant | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Elephant | det |
| 14 | Elephant | Elephant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 better | obl |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | present | I | myself | well property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Topic |
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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