Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 14, sentence 86

A Countryman in the crowd, observing all that has passed, said, “So help me, Hercules, he shall not beat me at that trick!” and at once proclaimed that he would do the same thing on the next day, though in a much more natural way.

Who acts: Countryman, that · What happens: observe, pass, say, help, not beat, proclaim · To what, where: Countryman, trick, same thing, natural way · 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 (Countryman, that), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Countryman	det
2	Countryman	countryman	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 said	nsubj
3	in	in	ADP	_	5 crowd	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 crowd	det
5	crowd	crowd	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 Countryman	nmod
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 observing	punct
7	observing	observe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 Countryman	conj
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 passed	det:predet
9	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 passed	nsubj
10	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 passed	aux
11	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	7 observing	ccomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Countryman	punct
13	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 help	punct
15	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 help	punct
16	So	so	ADV	_	17 help	advmod
17	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 said	ccomp
18	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 help	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 Hercules	punct
20	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 help	vocative
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 beat	punct
22	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 beat	nsubj
23	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 beat	aux
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	25 beat	advmod
25	beat	beat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 help	parataxis
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 beat	obj
27	at	at	ADP	_	29 trick	case
28	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 trick	det
29	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beat	obl
30	!	!	PUNCT	_	25 beat	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	17 help	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 proclaimed	cc
33	at	at	ADP	_	34 once	case
34	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	35 proclaimed	obl
35	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 said	conj
36	that	that	SCONJ	_	39 do	mark
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 do	nsubj
38	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	39 do	aux
39	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 proclaimed	ccomp
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 thing	det
41	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 thing	amod
42	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 do	obj
43	on	on	ADP	_	46 day	case
44	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 day	det
45	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 day	amod
46	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 do	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 way	punct
48	though	though	SCONJ	_	54 way	mark
49	in	in	ADP	_	54 way	case
50	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	54 way	det
51	much	much	ADV	_	52 more	advmod
52	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	53 natural	advmod
53	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 way	amod
54	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 do	obl
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	observe	gerund	a Countryman in the crowd not said here						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	pass	present · perfect	that						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	say speech: express	past	a Countryman in the crowd						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	help in a quote	infinitive			a Countryman in the crowd = countryman			Hercules vocative	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary
5	not beat in a quote	shall	Countryman	a Countryman in the crowd = countryman		that trick			vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
6	proclaim	past	a Countryman in the crowd not said here						vn confess-37.10 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
7	do	would	Countryman	the same thing		a natural way	day		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=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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