Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 29
When the Flea a second time hopped upon his foot, he groaned and said, “O Hercules! if you will not help me against a Flea, how can I hope for your assistance against greater antagonists?”
Who acts: Flea, Jupiter, you, your · What happens: hop, groan, say, not help, hope, assist · To what, where: foot, Jupiter · 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 (Flea, Jupiter, you, your), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 hopped | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Flea | det |
| 3 | Flea | Flea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 hopped | nsubj |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 5 | second | second | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 time | amod |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 Flea | appos |
| 7 | hopped | hop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 groaned | advcl |
| 8 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 10 foot | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 foot | nmod:poss |
| 10 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hopped | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hopped | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 groaned | nsubj |
| 13 | groaned | groan | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 said | cc |
| 15 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 groaned | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 help | punct |
| 18 | O | of | ADP | Abbr=Yes | 19 Hercules | case |
| 19 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 help | obl |
| 20 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 19 Hercules | punct |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 25 help | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 help | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 help | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 help | advmod |
| 25 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 said | ccomp |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 help | obj |
| 27 | against | against | ADP | _ | 29 Flea | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Flea | det |
| 29 | Flea | Flea | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 help | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 hope | punct |
| 31 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 34 hope | advmod |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 hope | aux |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 hope | nsubj |
| 34 | hope | hope | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 help | conj |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 assistance | case |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 37 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 hope | obl |
| 38 | against | against | ADP | _ | 40 antagonists | case |
| 39 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 40 antagonists | amod |
| 40 | antagonists | antagonist | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 assistance | nmod |
| 41 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 13 groaned | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 groaned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hop | past | the Flea | Jupiter's foot | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | groan | past | Jupiter | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | say speech: ask | past | Jupiter not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | not help a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | Jupiter | of Hercules; against a Flea | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | hope in a quote | can | Jupiter | for your assistance against greater antagonists | vn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for assistance=Theme | ||||
| 6 | assist in a quote | your | against greater antagonists | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent against=obl |
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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