Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 138
“Oh,” cried the Farmer with his last breath, “I am rightly served for pitying a scoundrel.”
Who acts: Farmer · What happens: cry, serve, pity · To what, where: Farmer, scoundrel · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Farmer), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 cried | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | cried | cry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Farmer | det |
| 7 | Farmer | Farmer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 cried | obj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 breath | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 breath | nmod:poss |
| 10 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 breath | amod |
| 11 | breath | breath | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Farmer | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 served | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 served | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 served | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 served | aux:pass |
| 16 | rightly | rightly | ADV | _ | 17 served | advmod |
| 17 | served | serve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 cried | conj |
| 18 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 19 pitying | mark |
| 19 | pitying | pity | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 served | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 scoundrel | det |
| 21 | scoundrel | scoundrel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pitying | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express | past | the Farmer | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | serve in a quote | present · passive | the Farmer = farmer | rightly property | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute | ||||
| 3 | pity in a quote | gerund | a scoundrel | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer scoundrel=Stimulus |
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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