Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 53

The Hare said, “Oh, how I have longed to see this day, in which the weak shall take their place with impunity by the side of the strong.”

Who acts: Hare, weak · What happens: say, long, see, take · To what, where: place · 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 (Hare, weak), 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 Hare	det
2	Hare	Hare	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 said	nsubj
3	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 longed	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	11 longed	punct
6	Oh	oh	INTJ	_	11 longed	discourse
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Oh	punct
8	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	11 longed	advmod
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 longed	nsubj
10	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 longed	aux
11	longed	long	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 said	ccomp
12	to	to	PART	_	13 see	mark
13	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 longed	xcomp
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 day	det
15	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 see	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 take	punct
17	in	in	ADP	_	18 which	case
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 take	obl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 weak	det
20	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 take	nsubj
21	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	22 take	aux
22	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 see	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 place	nmod:poss
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obj
25	with	with	ADP	_	26 impunity	case
26	impunity	impunity	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
27	by	by	ADP	_	29 side	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 side	det
29	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 take	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 strong	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 strong	det
32	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 side	nmod
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	the Hare				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	long in a quote	present · perfect	the Hare = hare				vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
3	see not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	the Hare = hare not said here		day		vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
4	take in a quote	shall	the weak	BEASTS's place		with impunity; by the side of the strong	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent place=Value in which=Location

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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