Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 126
Pleasure bought with pains, hurts.
Who acts: Pleasure · What happens: buy, hurt · To what, where: Pleasure
This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 1. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pleasure), 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 | Pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hurts | nsubj |
| 2 | bought | buy | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Pleasure | acl |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 pains | case |
| 4 | pains | pain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 bought | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Pleasure | punct |
| 6 | hurts | hurt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hurts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | buy | participle | Pleasure not said here | with pains | vn accept-77.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | hurt | present | Pleasure | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
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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