Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 67

He replied: “Why, forsooth! use I gave credence to the words of a woman!”

Who acts: Wolf, forsooth · What happens: reply, use, give, word · To what, where: credence, words, woman · 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 (Wolf, forsooth), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 replied	nsubj
2	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	:	:	PUNCT	_	7 forsooth	punct
4	“	"	PUNCT	_	7 forsooth	punct
5	Why	why	ADV	PronType=Int	7 forsooth	advmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 forsooth	punct
7	forsooth	forsooth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 use	nsubj
8	!	!	PUNCT	_	7 forsooth	punct
9	use	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 replied	ccomp
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 gave	nsubj
11	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 use	ccomp
12	credence	credence	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 gave	obj
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 words	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 words	det
15	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 gave	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 woman	case
17	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 woman	det
18	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 words	nmod
19	!	!	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	roles by
1	reply speech: express	past	Wolf			vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	use in a quote	present	forsooth			vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	give in a quote	past	Wolf	credence	the words of a woman	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent credence=Theme to word=Recipient
4	word in a quote			a woman		nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient

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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