Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 116

His master one day, pretending to be angry and shaking his stick at him, said, “You wretched little sluggard! what shall I do to you?

Who acts: master, You · What happens: pretend, be, shake, say, sluggard, do · To what, where: stick, you · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (master, You), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 master	nmod:poss
2	master	master	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	nsubj
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 master	nmod:unmarked
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 pretending	punct
6	pretending	pretend	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 master	parataxis
7	to	to	PART	_	9 angry	mark
8	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 angry	cop
9	angry	angry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 pretending	xcomp
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 shaking	cc
11	shaking	shake	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 pretending	conj
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 stick	nmod:poss
13	stick	stick	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 shaking	obj
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 him	case
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shaking	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 master	punct
17	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 sluggard	punct
19	“	"	PUNCT	_	23 sluggard	punct
20	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 sluggard	nsubj
21	wretched	wretched	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sluggard	amod
22	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 sluggard	amod
23	sluggard	sluggard	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 said	ccomp
24	!	!	PUNCT	_	23 sluggard	punct
25	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	28 do	obj
26	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	28 do	aux
27	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	28 do	nsubj
28	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 said	ccomp
29	to	to	ADP	_	30 you	case
30	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	28 do	obl
31	?	?	PUNCT	_	17 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	pretend	gerund					tree rules
2	is	to-infinitive				angry property	tree rules
3	shake	gerund		Dog's stick		at Dog	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent stick=Theme at he=Trajectory
4	say speech: ask	past	Dog's master one day				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	sluggard in a quote		You				tree rules
6	do in a quote	shall	Dog's master one day = master		you		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality

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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