Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 119

Soon afterwards suffering great pain in his stomach, he said, “I deserve all this torment, for my folly in thinking that everything round must be an egg.”

Who acts: dog, folly · What happens: suffer, say, deserve, think, be · To what, where: great pain, stomach, torment, egg · 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 (dog, folly), 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	Soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	3 suffering	advmod
2	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	_	3 suffering	advmod
3	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 said	advcl
4	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 pain	amod
5	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffering	obj
6	in	in	ADP	_	8 stomach	case
7	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	8 stomach	nmod:poss
8	stomach	stomach	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffering	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 suffering	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 said	nsubj
11	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 deserve	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 deserve	punct
14	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 deserve	nsubj
15	deserve	deserve	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 said	ccomp
16	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	18 torment	det:predet
17	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 torment	det
18	torment	torment	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deserve	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 folly	punct
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 folly	case
21	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 folly	nmod:poss
22	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 egg	nsubj
23	in	in	SCONJ	_	24 thinking	mark
24	thinking	think	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	22 folly	acl
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 round	mark
26	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	27 round	compound
27	round	round	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thinking	ccomp
28	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 egg	aux
29	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 egg	cop
30	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	31 egg	det
31	egg	egg	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 deserve	ccomp
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct
33	”	"	PUNCT	_	11 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suffer	gerund	dog not said here	great pain	dog's stomach	afterwards, soon property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer pain=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	past	dog				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	deserve in a quote	present	dog	all torment			tree rules
4	think speech: other in a quote	gerund	my folly not said here				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	is a in a quote	must	my folly	a egg			tree rules

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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