Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 1, sentence 80

The Fuller replied, “The arrangement is impossible as far as I am concerned, for whatever I should whiten, you would immediately blacken again with your charcoal.”

Who acts: Fuller, arrangement, you · What happens: reply, be, whiten, blacken · To what, where: whatever · 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 (Fuller, arrangement, you), 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 Fuller	det
2	Fuller	Fuller	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 impossible	punct
5	“	"	PUNCT	_	9 impossible	punct
6	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 arrangement	det
7	arrangement	arrangement	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 impossible	nsubj
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 impossible	cop
9	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 replied	ccomp
10	as	as	ADV	_	11 far	advmod
11	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	9 impossible	advmod
12	as	as	SCONJ	_	15 concerned	mark
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 concerned	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	15 concerned	cop
15	concerned	concerned	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 far	advcl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 whiten	punct
17	for	for	SCONJ	_	21 whiten	mark
18	whatever	whatever	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 whiten	obj
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 whiten	nsubj
20	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 whiten	aux
21	whiten	whiten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 impossible	parataxis
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 blacken	punct
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 blacken	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 blacken	aux
25	immediately	immediately	ADV	_	26 blacken	advmod
26	blacken	blacken	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 whiten	conj
27	again	again	ADV	_	26 blacken	advmod
28	with	with	ADP	_	30 charcoal	case
29	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 charcoal	nmod:poss
30	charcoal	charcoal	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 blacken	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 whiten	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Fuller				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	is in a quote	present	the arrangement			far, impossible property	tree rules
3	is in a quote	present	the Fuller = fuller			concerned property	tree rules
4	whiten in a quote	should	the Fuller = fuller	whatever			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent whatever=Patient
5	blacken in a quote	would	you		again	with your charcoal; immediately property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with charcoal=Instrument

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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