Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 44

I would rather have one barleycorn than all the jewels in the world.”

Who acts: I · What happens: have · To what, where: one barleycorn

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 (I), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 have	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 have	aux
3	rather	rather	ADV	_	4 have	advmod
4	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 barleycorn	nummod
6	barleycorn	barleycorn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 have	obj
7	than	than	ADP	_	10 jewels	case
8	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	10 jewels	det:predet
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 jewels	det
10	jewels	jewel	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 barleycorn	nmod
11	in	in	ADP	_	13 world	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 world	det
13	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 jewels	nmod
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct
15	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	have	would	I	one barleycorn				than all jewels in the world	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent barleycorn=Patient

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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