Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 43

A COCK, scratching for food for himself and his hens, found a precious stone and exclaimed: “If your owner had found thee, and not I, he would have taken thee up, and have set thee in thy first estate; but I have found thee for no purpose.

Who acts: COCK, owner · What happens: scratch, find, exclaim, take up, set · To what, where: precious stone, thee, COCK, first estate · 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 (COCK, owner), 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 COCK	det
2	COCK	cock	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 scratching	punct
4	scratching	scratch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 COCK	acl
5	for	for	ADP	_	6 food	case
6	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 scratching	obl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 himself	case
8	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	4 scratching	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hens	cc
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 hens	nmod:poss
11	hens	hen	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 himself	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 COCK	punct
13	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 stone	det
15	precious	precious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 stone	amod
16	stone	stone	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 found	obj
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 exclaimed	cc
18	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 found	conj
19	:	:	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
20	“	"	PUNCT	_	25 found	punct
21	If	if	SCONJ	_	25 found	mark
22	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 owner	nmod:poss
23	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 found	nsubj
24	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	25 found	aux
25	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 exclaimed	parataxis
26	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	25 found	obj
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 taken	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 taken	cc
29	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	30 I	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	35 taken	nsubj:pass
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 I	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 taken	nsubj
33	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	35 taken	aux
34	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	35 taken	aux
35	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	25 found	conj
36	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	35 taken	obj
37	up	up	ADP	_	35 taken	compound:prt
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 set	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 set	cc
40	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	41 set	aux
41	set	set	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 taken	conj
42	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	41 set	obj
43	in	in	ADP	_	46 estate	case
44	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	46 estate	nmod:poss
45	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	46 estate	amod
46	estate	estate	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 set	obl
47	;	;	PUNCT	_	51 found	punct
48	but	but	CCONJ	_	51 found	cc
49	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 found	nsubj
50	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	51 found	aux
51	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	13 found	conj
52	thee	thou	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch	51 found	obj
53	for	for	ADP	_	55 purpose	case
54	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	55 purpose	det
55	purpose	purpose	NOUN	Number=Sing	51 found	obl
56	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	scratch	gerund	a COCK not said here			for food; for Grasshopper	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for food=Theme
2	find	past	a COCK	a precious stone			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Topic
3	exclaim speech: express	past	a COCK not said here				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	past · perfect	your owner	thee			vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=Topic
5	take up in a quote	would · perfect · passive		a COCK = cock			vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme thou=Destination
6	set in a quote	present · perfect		thee	thy first estate		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent thou=Theme in estate=Destination
7	find in a quote	present · perfect	a COCK = cock	thee		for no purpose	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent thou=Theme for purpose=Beneficiary

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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