Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 47

The Crow put an end to the dispute by saying, “Your feathers are all very well in the spring, but mine protect me against the winter.”

Who acts: Crow, feathers · What happens: put, say, be, protect · To what, where: end, Crow · 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 (Crow, feathers), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Crow	det
2	Crow	crow	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	nsubj
3	put	put	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 end	det
5	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obj
6	to	to	ADP	_	8 dispute	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 dispute	det
8	dispute	dispute	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 put	obl
9	by	by	SCONJ	_	10 saying	mark
10	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 put	advcl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 spring	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	21 spring	punct
13	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 feathers	nmod:poss
14	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 spring	nsubj
15	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 spring	cop
16	all	all	ADV	_	18 well	advmod
17	very	very	ADV	_	18 well	advmod
18	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 spring	advmod
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 spring	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 spring	det
21	spring	spring	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 saying	ccomp
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 protect	punct
23	but	but	CCONJ	_	25 protect	cc
24	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 protect	nsubj
25	protect	protect	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 put	conj
26	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	25 protect	obj
27	against	against	ADP	_	29 winter	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 winter	det
29	winter	winter	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 protect	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct
31	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 put	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	put	past	the Crow	a end			to the dispute	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent end=Goal
2	say speech: assert	gerund	the Crow not said here					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
3	is in a quote	present	Your feathers			in the spring	well property	tree rules
4	protect in a quote	present	the Crow = crow		the Crow = crow	winter		vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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