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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

advmoddetnsubjdetamodapposadvclcasenmod:possoblpunctnsubjccconjpunctpunctcaseoblpunctmarknsubjauxadvmodccompobjcasedetoblpunctadvmodauxnsubjconjcasenmod:possoblcaseamodnmodpunctpunctrootWhenADVtheDETFleaPROPNaDETsecondADJtimeNOUNhoppedVERBuponADPhisPRONfootNOUN,PUNCThePRONgroanedVERBandCCONJsaidVERB,PUNCT“PUNCTOADPHerculesPROPN!PUNCTifSCONJyouPRONwillAUXnotPARThelpVERBmePRONagainstADPaDETFleaPROPN,PUNCThowADVcanAUXIPRONhopeVERBforADPyourPRONassistanceNOUNagainstADPgreaterADJantagonistsNOUN?PUNCT”PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1WhenwhenADVPronType=Int7 hoppedadvmod
2thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art3 Fleadet
3FleaFleaPROPNNumber=Sing7 hoppednsubj
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art6 timedet
5secondsecondADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord6 timeamod
6timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing3 Fleaappos
7hoppedhopVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 groanedadvcl
8uponuponADP_10 footcase
9hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs10 footnmod:poss
10footfootNOUNNumber=Sing7 hoppedobl
11,,PUNCT_7 hoppedpunct
12hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs13 groanednsubj
13groanedgroanVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
14andandCCONJ_15 saidcc
15saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin13 groanedconj
16,,PUNCT_25 helppunct
17“"PUNCT_25 helppunct
18OofADPAbbr=Yes19 Herculescase
19HerculesHerculesPROPNNumber=Sing25 helpobl
20!!PUNCT_19 Herculespunct
21ififSCONJ_25 helpmark
22youyouPRONCase=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs25 helpnsubj
23willwillAUXVerbForm=Fin25 helpaux
24notnotPARTPolarity=Neg25 helpadvmod
25helphelpVERBVerbForm=Inf15 saidccomp
26meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 helpobj
27againstagainstADP_29 Fleacase
28aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art29 Fleadet
29FleaFleaPROPNNumber=Sing25 helpobl
30,,PUNCT_34 hopepunct
31howhowADVPronType=Int34 hopeadvmod
32cancanAUXVerbForm=Fin34 hopeaux
33IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs34 hopensubj
34hopehopeVERBVerbForm=Inf25 helpconj
35forforADP_37 assistancecase
36youryourPRONCase=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs37 assistancenmod:poss
37assistanceassistanceNOUNNumber=Sing34 hopeobl
38againstagainstADP_40 antagonistscase
39greatergreatADJDegree=Cmp40 antagonistsamod
40antagonistsantagonistNOUNNumber=Plur37 assistancenmod
41??PUNCT_13 groanedpunct
42”"PUNCT_13 groanedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1hoppastthe FleaJupiter's footvn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon foot=Trajectory
2groanpastJupitervn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3say speech: askpastJupiter not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4not help a condition, not said to happen, in a quotefutureyouJupiterof Hercules; against a Fleavn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
5hope in a quotecanJupiterfor your assistance against greater antagonistsvn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for assistance=Theme
6assist in a quoteyouragainst greater antagonistsnom 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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