Three hundred Aesop’s fables, Aesop’s Fables, part 2, sentence 101

He whistled and sounded his horn in vain; the straggler paid no attention to the summons.

Who acts: Goatherd, straggler · What happens: whistle, sound, pay · To what, where: horn, vain, attention

This is a sentence of «Three hundred Aesop’s fables» by Aesop, Aesop’s Fables, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Goatherd, straggler), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 whistled	nsubj
2	whistled	whistle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	and	and	CCONJ	_	4 sounded	cc
4	sounded	sound	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	conj
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 horn	nmod:poss
6	horn	horn	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 sounded	obj
7	in	in	ADP	_	8 vain	case
8	vain	vain	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 sounded	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 paid	punct
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 straggler	det
11	straggler	straggler	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	nsubj
12	paid	pay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 whistled	conj
13	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	14 attention	det
14	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 paid	obj
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 summons	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 summons	det
17	summons	summon	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 paid	obl
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 whistled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	whistle	past	Goatherd				vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	sound	past	Goatherd not said here	Goatherd's horn	vain		vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location horn=Theme
3	pay	past	the straggler	no attention		to the summons	vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset

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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