Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 117

While I am hammering on the anvil, you sleep on the mat; and when I begin to eat after my toil, you wake up and wag your tail for food.

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: hammer, sleep, begin, eat, wake up, wag · To what, where: anvil, mat, tail

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 (I, you, my), 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 hammering	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 hammering	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 hammering	aux
4	hammering	hammer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 sleep	advcl
5	on	on	ADP	_	7 anvil	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 anvil	det
7	anvil	anvil	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 hammering	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 hammering	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	10 sleep	nsubj
10	sleep	sleep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	on	on	ADP	_	13 mat	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 mat	det
13	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 sleep	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 wake	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	26 wake	cc
16	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	18 begin	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 begin	nsubj
18	begin	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 wake	advcl
19	to	to	PART	_	20 eat	mark
20	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 begin	xcomp
21	after	after	ADP	_	23 toil	case
22	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 toil	nmod:poss
23	toil	toil	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 eat	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 begin	punct
25	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 wake	nsubj
26	wake	wake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 sleep	conj
27	up	up	ADP	_	26 wake	compound:prt
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wag	cc
29	wag	wag	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 sleep	conj
30	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	31 tail	nmod:poss
31	tail	tail	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wag	obj
32	for	for	ADP	_	33 food	case
33	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 wag	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 sleep	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	hammer	present · progressive	I		the anvil			vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme
2	sleep	present	you		the mat			vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	begin	present	I					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	eat	to-infinitive	I not said here			after my toil		vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	wake up	present	you					vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
6	wag	infinitive	you not said here	your tail			for food	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tail=Patient
7	toil		my					nom toil «act intransitive»: 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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