Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 13, sentence 79

As they rested under its shade, one of the Travelers said to the other, “What a singularly useless tree is the Plane!

Who acts: beauty, Travelers, useless tree, Traveler · What happens: rest, say, be, shade · To what, where: shade, one, other, Plane · 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 (beauty, Travelers, useless tree, Traveler), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	3 rested	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 rested	nsubj
3	rested	rest	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 said	advcl
4	under	under	ADP	_	6 shade	case
5	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 shade	nmod:poss
6	shade	shade	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rested	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 one	punct
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	12 said	obl
9	of	of	ADP	_	11 Travelers	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Travelers	det
11	Travelers	traveler	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 said	nsubj
12	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	to	to	ADP	_	15 other	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 other	det
15	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 said	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 What	punct
17	“	"	PUNCT	_	18 What	punct
18	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	12 said	parataxis
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 tree	det
20	singularly	singularly	ADV	_	21 useless	advmod
21	useless	useless	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 tree	amod
22	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 Plane	nsubj
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	25 Plane	cop
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 Plane	det
25	Plane	plane	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 What	acl:relcl
26	!	!	PUNCT	_	12 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	rest	past	beauty			Traveler's shade	vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under shade=Location
2	say speech: express	past	the Travelers	one	the other		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to other=Recipient clause=Topic
3	is a in a quote	present	a useless tree	the Plane			tree rules
4	shade		Traveler				nom shade «state transitive»: poss=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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