Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 41

She made answer, “Because in former times, falsehood was with few, but is now with all men.”

Who acts: woman, falsehood · What happens: answer, be · 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 (woman, falsehood), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 answer	nsubj
2	made	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 answer	aux
3	answer	answer	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 few	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	14 few	punct
6	Because	because	SCONJ	_	11 falsehood	mark
7	in	in	ADP	_	9 times	case
8	former	former	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 times	amod
9	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 falsehood	nmod:unmarked
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 times	punct
11	falsehood	falsehood	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 few	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 few	cop
13	with	with	ADP	_	14 few	case
14	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 answer	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 men	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 men	cc
17	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 men	cop
18	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	21 men	advmod
19	with	with	ADP	_	21 men	case
20	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	21 men	det
21	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 few	conj
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 answer	punct
23	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 answer	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	when	other	roles by
1	answer speech: assert	may	woman			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	past	falsehood in former times		few property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	falsehood in former times not said here	now	with all men	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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