Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 142

A RICH MAN lived near a Tanner, and not being able to bear the unpleasant smell of the tan-yard, he pressed his neighbor to go away.

Who acts: RICH MAN, Wolf, tan yard · What happens: live, not be, bear, press, go away, smell · To what, where: Tanner, unpleasant smell, neighbor

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 (RICH MAN, Wolf, tan yard), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 MAN	det
2	RICH	rich	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 MAN	amod
3	MAN	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 lived	nsubj
4	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	near	near	ADP	_	7 Tanner	case
6	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 Tanner	det
7	Tanner	Tanner	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 lived	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 able	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 able	cc
10	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	12 able	advmod
11	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 able	cop
12	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 lived	conj
13	to	to	PART	_	14 bear	mark
14	bear	bear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 able	xcomp
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 smell	det
16	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 smell	amod
17	smell	smell	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 bear	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	22 yard	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 yard	det
20	tan	tan	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 yard	compound
21	-	-	PUNCT	_	20 tan	punct
22	yard	yard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 smell	nmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 pressed	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 pressed	nsubj
25	pressed	press	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 lived	parataxis
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 neighbor	nmod:poss
27	neighbor	neighbor	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 pressed	obj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 go	mark
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 pressed	advcl
30	away	away	ADV	_	29 go	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	live	past	a RICH MAN		a Tanner		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near tanner=Location
2	not is	gerund	a RICH MAN not said here			able property	tree rules
3	bear	to-infinitive	a RICH MAN not said here	the unpleasant smell of the tan yard			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent smell=Patient
4	press	past	Wolf	Wolf's neighbor			vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neighbor=Theme
5	go away	to-infinitive	Wolf not said here			away property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	smell		the tan yard				nom smell «cognition 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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